Tess of the d'Urbervilles (SparkNot
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles (SparkNot by Thomas Hardy
Hardy's hand-drawn map of Wessex and the manuscript title page for the first edition of his novel are also included.
Hardy and the Novel includes seven poems by Hardy that provide greater insight into his ethos; selections from Michael Millgate's biography of Hardy that depict the relationship between episodes in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and events in the author's life; and excerpts from Grindle and Gatrell's introduction to the 1983 edition that discuss Hardy's revision process in both manuscripts and early printed editions of the novel.
Criticism features three contemporary reviews of the novel not printed in the earlier Norton editions, including the first feminist review of Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Also new are A Chat with Mr. Hardy, a hitherto unprinted post-publication interview with the author about his new novel, and five carefully selected critical interpretations.
Essays by Elliot B. Gose, Jr., Peter R. Morton, and Gillian Beer address Hardy's debt to Charles Darwin, perhaps the single most important influence on Hardy's thought and imagination; Raymond Williams's essay presents a Marxist perspective; and Adrian Poole discusses the significance of Hardy's wisdom concerning the trouble men's words have with women and the trouble women have with men's words.
A Chronology, new to this edition, and a Selected Bibliography are included.
Count Lev (Leo) Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born at Vasnaya Polyana in the Russian province of Tula in 1828. He inherited the family title aged 19, quit university and after a period of the kind of dissolute aristocratic life so convincingly portrayed in his later novels, joined the army, where he started to write. Travels in Europe opened him to western ideas, and he returned to his family estates to live as a benign landowner. In 1862 he married Sofia Behr, who bore him 13 children. He expressed his increasingly subversive, but devout, views through prolific work that culminated in the immortal novels of his middle years, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Beloved in Russia and with a worldwide following, but feared by the Tsarist state and excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox church, he died in 1910.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781586633820 |
| ISBN 10 | 1586633821 |
| Title | Tess of the d'Urbervilles (SparkNot |
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| Series | Sparknotes Literature Guide Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SparkNotes |
| Year published | 2002-07-15 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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