The WoodlandersOUP Oxford, 10. feb. 2005 - 416 sider 'If ever I forget your name let me forget home and heaven...But no, no, my love, I never can forget 'ee; for you was a good man, and did good things!' Love, and the erratic heart, are at the centre of Hardy's 'woodland story'. Set in the beautiful Blackmoor Vale, The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-to-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of the dashing and dissolute doctor, Edred Fitzpiers. When the mysterious Felice Charmond further complicates the romantic entanglements, marital choice and class mobility become inextricably linked. Hardy's powerful novel depicts individuals in thrall to desire and the natural law that motivates them. This is the only critical edition of The Woodlanders based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and incorporating later revisions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. |
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Side xiv
... Marty South's sacrifice of her hair; Winterborne's distracted outbidding of Melbury at an auction threatens coolness in their normal friendship; and the loss of Giles's house provokes both Marty's original commentary on his emotional ...
... Marty South's sacrifice of her hair; Winterborne's distracted outbidding of Melbury at an auction threatens coolness in their normal friendship; and the loss of Giles's house provokes both Marty's original commentary on his emotional ...
Side xviii
... Marty South, who is dedicated to Giles Winterborne alone from start to finish. Yet what distinguishes both this character and this relationship is precisely that they stand aside from the merry-go-round of commitments made and abandoned ...
... Marty South, who is dedicated to Giles Winterborne alone from start to finish. Yet what distinguishes both this character and this relationship is precisely that they stand aside from the merry-go-round of commitments made and abandoned ...
Side xix
... Marty's letter) as the weapon––the 'bullet' (p. )––which in turn drives Fitzpiers from Felice. The sexual symbolism is evident, too, in the language of violation with which Marty's self-mutilation is first recounted: the sacrifice ...
... Marty's letter) as the weapon––the 'bullet' (p. )––which in turn drives Fitzpiers from Felice. The sexual symbolism is evident, too, in the language of violation with which Marty's self-mutilation is first recounted: the sacrifice ...
Side xxii
... Marty's manual labour: As with so many right hands born to manual labour, there was nothing in its fundamental shape to bear out the physiological conventionalism that gradations of birth show themselves primarily in the form of this ...
... Marty's manual labour: As with so many right hands born to manual labour, there was nothing in its fundamental shape to bear out the physiological conventionalism that gradations of birth show themselves primarily in the form of this ...
Side xxiii
... Marty South is introduced as seen through a lighted window by the approaching Barber Percomb; George Melbury enters the novel as watched by candlelight and overheard in his garden by Marty; and the reintroduction of Fitzpiers to Felice ...
... Marty South is introduced as seen through a lighted window by the approaching Barber Percomb; George Melbury enters the novel as watched by candlelight and overheard in his garden by Marty; and the reintroduction of Fitzpiers to Felice ...
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