""Backgrounds and Contexts" provides a "Glossary of Dialect Words" that will help students understand the unfamiliar language used in the novel. Four essays on the textual and publication history of the novel, all new to this edition, are by Hardy, Simon Gatrell, Andrew Nash, and Phillip Mallett. Also collected here all are six of Hardy's nonfictional writings, five of which are new to this edition." ""Criticism" includes "Contemporary Reception" and "Modern Criticism" sections; the latter contains nine assessments - three are printed in this Norton Critical Edition for the first time. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included."--BOOK JACKET.
About the Author
Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840. His father was a stonemason. He was brought up near Dorchester and trained as an architect. In 1868 his work took him to St Juliot s church in Cornwall where he met his wife-to-be, Emma. His first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was rejected by publishers but Desperate Remedies was published in 1871 and this was rapidly followed by Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1874). He also wrote many other novels, poems and short stories. Tess of the D Urbervilles was published in 1891. His final novel was Jude the Obscure (1895). Hardy was awarded the Order of Merit in 1920 and the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1912. His wife died in 1912 and he later married his secretary. Thomas Hardy died 11 January 1928.
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