The Mayor of Casterbridge 2e (NCE): A Norton Critical Edition: 0 (Norton Critical Editions)

by Thomas Hardy (Author), Phillip Mallett (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2000

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  It has been collated with the Mellstock Edition of 1920, for which Hardy submitted final corrections. Backgrounds and Contexts provides new and invaluable source material on Victorian Dorset and, in particular, Dorchester, Hardy's native home and the town upon which Casterbridge is based. Included are six of Hardy's nonfiction writings, notably excerpts from his essay The Dorsetshire Laboure (1883), in which he frankly comments on the social changes he has witnessed in the county. Hardy's Wessex is further examined in an essay by Michael Millgate, by maps of Casterbridge and Wessex, and by a key to local place names. Christine Winfield discusses the novel's manuscript and its complicated history. Criticism collects seventeen wide-ranging assessments of the novel--six new to the Second Edition--from both contemporary and modern critics, including Virginia Woolf, Albert J. Guerard, Julian Moynahan, John Paterson, Michael Millgate, Irving Howe, J. Hillis Miller, Ian Gregor, Elaine Showalter, George Levine, William Greenslade, H. M. Daleski, and Suzanne Keen. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.27

  This text includes the full text and GCSE support materials: a section the writing process of Hardy; an introduction; how to keep a reading log; a full study programme designed for the National Curriculum and GCSE syllabuses. The study material could also be used with A level students. Rooted in Hardy's native Wessex, this novel follows the story of a man who sells his wife when drunk. Repentant and reformed, he rises to become the Mayor of Casterbridge. Then, little by little he loses position, means, respect and love.

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  Hardcover
  1974

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  This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

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  Paperback
  1994

  $6.77

  With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character'. The fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force, and features some of the author's most striking episodes and brilliant passages of description.