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The complete critical guide to Thomas Hardy /

This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work. It includes the major aspects of Hardy's life in the context of contemporary culture a detailed commentary on Hardy's most important work and a critica...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harvey, Geoffrey, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series:Complete critical guide to English literature.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and referencing; Introduction; LIFE AND CONTEXTS; Rural childhood; Architect and autodidact; Young man in London; Apprentice novelist: Cornwall and love; Far From the Madding Crowd: fame and marriage; Nomadic novelist; Dorchester, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and high society; Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, and the abandonment of fiction; Emergence of the poet; Emma's death; marriage to Florence; Moments of Vision and writing The Life of Thomas Hardy; Final years; WORK.