Exploring Thomas Hardy's Wessex

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Wessex PDF Author: Tony Fincham
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ISBN: 9780992915155
Category : Wessex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Exploring Thomas Hardy's Wessex

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Wessex PDF Author: Tony Fincham
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ISBN: 9780992915155
Category : Wessex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Thomas Hardy's Wessex

Thomas Hardy's Wessex PDF Author: Hermann Lea
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Thomas Hardy's Wessex

Thomas Hardy's Wessex PDF Author: Hermann Lea
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780659903839
Category : Literary landmarks
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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This amply illustrated volume explores Dorset sites associated with Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels.

Thomas Hardy's Wessex

Thomas Hardy's Wessex PDF Author: Lea Hermann
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781313390095
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy PDF Author: Mark Ford
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067473789X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Acknowledgements -- Index

WESSEX TALES

WESSEX TALES PDF Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: 谷月社
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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PREFACE An apology is perhaps needed for the neglect of contrast which is shown by presenting two consecutive stories of hangmen in such a small collection as the following. But in the neighbourhood of county-towns tales of executions used to form a large proportion of the local traditions; and though never personally acquainted with any chief operator at such scenes, the writer of these pages had as a boy the privilege of being on speaking terms with a man who applied for the office, and who sank into an incurable melancholy because he failed to get it, some slight mitigation of his grief being to dwell upon striking episodes in the lives of those happier ones who had held it with success and renown. His tale of disappointment used to cause some wonder why his ambition should have taken such an unfortunate form, but its nobleness was never questioned. In those days, too, there was still living an old woman who, for the cure of some eating disease, had been taken in her youth to have her ‘blood turned’ by a convict’s corpse, in the manner described in ‘The Withered Arm.’ Since writing this story some years ago I have been reminded by an aged friend who knew ‘Rhoda Brook’ that, in relating her dream, my forgetfulness has weakened the facts our of which the tale grew. In reality it was while lying down on a hot afternoon that the incubus oppressed her and she flung it off, with the results upon the body of the original as described. To my mind the occurrence of such a vision in the daytime is more impressive than if it had happened in a midnight dream. Readers are therefore asked to correct the misrelation, which affords an instance of how our imperfect memories insensibly formalize the fresh originality of living fact—from whose shape they slowly depart, as machine-made castings depart by degrees from the sharp hand-work of the mould.

Thomas Hardy's Wessex Scene

Thomas Hardy's Wessex Scene PDF Author:
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy PDF Author: J. B. Bullen
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1781011222
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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A study of the fictious world in Hardy’s novels in relation to real places and Hardy’s real-life experiences. Thomas Hardy’s Wessex is one of the great literary evocations of place, populated with colourful and dramatic characters. As lovers of his novels and poetry know, this ‘partly real, partly dream-country’ was firmly rooted in the Dorset into which he had been born. J. B. Bullen explores the relationship between reality and the dream, identifying the places and the settings for Hardy’s writing, and showing how and why he shaped them to serve the needs of his characters and plots. The locations may be natural or man-made, but they are rarely fantastic or imaginary. A few have been destroyed and some moved from their original site, but all of them actually existed, and we can still trace most of them on the ground today. Thomas Hardy: The World of his Novels is essential reading for students of literature and for all Hardy enthusiasts who want to gain new insights into his work. Praise for Thomas Hardy “Take pleasure in a book like this one, which skillfully interweaves its evocative accounts of Hardy’s life, of Dorset and Cornwall places, and of the stories unfolded from places in six of his novels (and a few poems) so that we vividly re-experience them. . . . The pleasures of this book (and they are real) come from its ability to re-enchant us in a way that is not un-Hardy-like, to draw us again into the intensely seen, heard, and felt world of the novels and poems. It set me to re-reading Hardy, with different eyes.” —Review 19

Thomas Hardy's Wessex

Thomas Hardy's Wessex PDF Author: Jules Brice
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ISBN: 9780954418205
Category :
Languages : en
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Discovering Hardy's Wessex

Discovering Hardy's Wessex PDF Author: Anne-Marie Edwards
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ISBN: 9780907753049
Category : Dorset (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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