| Edition |
[First American edition]. |
| Description |
428 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
The poor man and the lady -- Desperate remedies -- "Ce Saxon autodidacte": a matter of education -- Under the greenwood tree -- Bockhampton and St Juliot: the exploitation of autobiography -- A pair of blue eyes -- Far from the madding crowd -- Puddletown into Weatherbury: the genesis of Wessex -- The hand of Ethelberta -- On native grounds: Kegan Paul and William Barnes -- The return of the native -- The trumpet-major -- The uses of a regional past -- A laodicean -- Hardy's laodiceanism: politics and ideas -- Two on a tower -- Max Gate -- "The Dorsetshire labourer" -- The mayor of Casterbridge -- The evolution of Wessex -- The woodlanders -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Candour in English fiction -- The well-beloved -- Hardy and the theatre -- Jude the obscure -- The end of prose. |
| Subject |
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Fictional works.
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Pastoral fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Millgate, Michael. Thomas Hardy: his career as a novelist. [1st American ed.] New York, Random House [1971] (OCoLC)564560233 |
| ISBN |
0394461215 |
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9780394461212 |
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