{"title":"Thomas Hardy","description":"Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), whose writing immortalized the semi-fictional Wessex countryside and dramatized his sense of the inevitable tragedy of life, wrote fifteen novels, including The Return of the Native (1878), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). 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Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but his unchanged impulsiveness clouds his relationships in love as well as his fortunes in business. Although Henchard is fated to be a modern-day tragic hero, unable to survive in the new commercial world, his story is also a journey towards love.\u003cbr\u003eThis edition is the only critically established text of the novel, based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and Hardy's extensive revisions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Series: \u003c\/strong\u003e For over 100 years \u003cstrong\u003eOxford World's Classics\u003c\/strong\u003e has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. 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Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. One of his first works set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition, based on Hardy's original 1874 manuscript, is the complete novel he never saw published, and restores its full candor and innovation. Rosemarie Morgan's introduction discusses the history of its publication, as well as the biblical and classical allusions that permeate the novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePenguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Hardy\u003c\/b\u003e (1840-1928), whose writing immortalized the semi-fictional Wessex countryside and dramatized his sense of the inevitable tragedy of life, wrote fifteen novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Return of the Native\u003c\/i\u003e (1878), \u003ci\u003eThe Mayor of Casterbridge\u003c\/i\u003e (1886), \u003ci\u003eTess of the d'Urbervilles\u003c\/i\u003e (1891), and \u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/i\u003e (1895). He is also renowned as one of the greatest poets of his era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eRosemarie Morgan \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of English at Yale. 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He; his cousin Thomasin; her fiance, Damon Wildeve; and the willful Eustacia Vye are the protagonists in a tale of doomed love, passion, alienation, and melancholy as Hardy brilliantly explores that theme so familiar throughout his fiction: the diabolical role of chance in determining the course of a life. \u003cbr\u003eAs Alexander Theroux asserts in his Introduction, Hardy was \"committed to the deep expression of [nature's] ironic chaos and strange apathy, even hostility, toward man.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840, in a thatched-roof cottage in upper Bockhampton, Dorset, England, a prophetic birthplace that lay in the center of 'Wessex, ' the fictional region of southwest England which would serve as the backdrop for his novels. The eldest son of a prosperous builder and stonemason, Hardy was educated at the village school and apprenticed at the age of sixteen to local architect and church restorer John Hicks. In 1862 he went to London to pursue his architectural career; he also began writing at this time. Hardy returned to Dorset in 1867 to become assistant to John Hicks and wrote his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Poor Man and the Lady, \u003c\/i\u003e of which only fragments remain. Although George Meredith, who was reader for Chapman \u0026amp; Hall publishers, advised against its publication, he encouraged Hardy to keep writing, preferably a story with a more complicated plot. Over the next several years he produced three more novels: \u003ci\u003eDesperate Remedies\u003c\/i\u003e (1871) and \u003ci\u003eUnder the Greenwood Tree\u003c\/i\u003e (1872) were published anonymously, but \u003ci\u003eA Pair of Blue Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e (1873) bore the author's name. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn November 1872, Leslie Stephen, the distinguished critic and editor, wrote to Hardy inviting him to contribute a novel for serialization in the Cornhill Magazine, a prestigious monthly that had published the work of such established writers as Anthony Trollope. Hardy accepted and in his letter to Stephen added that 'the chief characters would probably be a young woman-farmer, a shepherd, and a sergeant of cavalry.' He wrote \u003ci\u003eFar from the Madding Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e both in and out of doors at Bockhamptom as if possessed. 'Occasionally without a scrap of paper at the very moment when [I] felt volumes . . . [I] would use large dead leaves, white chips left by the woodcutters, or pieces of stone or slate that came to hand, ' Hardy later recalled. Published anonymously in 1874, \u003ci\u003eFar from the Madding Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e sold out in just over two months and marked the turning point in Hardy's literary career. As Virginia Woolf later noted: 'The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective man, the man of learning, all enlisted to produce a book which, however fashions may chop and change, must hold its place among the great English novels.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe success of \u003ci\u003eFar from the Madding Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e in 1874 encouraged Hardy to abandon architecture and devote himself entirely to the craft of fiction. His next novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Hand of Ethelberta\u003c\/i\u003e (1876), also appeared in the Cornhill Magazine but did not repeat the success of its predecessor. In 1874 Hardy married Emma Lavinia Gifford, and the couple soon settled in an idyllic cottage overlooking the Dorset Stour, at Sturminster Newton, where Hardy wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Return of the Native\u003c\/i\u003e (1878). In 1878 he moved to London. Although he became a well-known figure in literary circles and was considered a catch for hostesses, Hardy wrote three disappointing 'minor' novels during his years there: \u003ci\u003eThe Trumpet-Major\u003c\/i\u003e (1880), \u003ci\u003eA Laodicean\u003c\/i\u003e (1881), and \u003ci\u003eTwo on a Tower\u003c\/i\u003e (1882). This fallow period in his career seemed to lift in 1885 with his return to Dorset to live at Max Gate. Over the next three years he published \u003ci\u003eThe Mayor of Casterbridge\u003c\/i\u003e (1886), which many regard as his greatest tragic novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Woodlanders\u003c\/i\u003e (1887), and his first collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eWessex Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (1888). In 1891 \u003ci\u003eTess of the d'Urbervilles\u003c\/i\u003e appeared, and in 1895 Hardy's final novel, \u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure, \u003c\/i\u003e came out. The book sent shock waves of indignation rolling across Victorian England. It was denounced as pornography and subjected the author to an avalanche of abuse. Hardy's disgust at the public's reaction led him to announce in 1896 that he would never again write fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring the remaining years of his life, Hardy devoted himself to poetry, publishing his first book of verse, \u003ci\u003eWessex Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e in 1898. A second collection, Poems of the Past and Present, appeared in 1901. Over the next five years Hardy wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Dynasts, \u003c\/i\u003e an epic drama about the Napoleonic War. In 1912 he made a final revision of his novels for the authoritative \u003ci\u003eWessex Editions.\u003c\/i\u003e Hardy's wife died suddenly the same year. 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The experience so exhausted Hardy that he never wrote a work of fiction again. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRich in symbolism, \u003cb\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/b\u003e is the story of Jude Fawley and his struggle to rise from his station as a poor Wessex stonemason to that of a scholar at Christminster. It is also the story of Jude's ill-fated relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead, and the ultimate tragedy that causes Jude's undoing and Sue's transformation. Jude the Obscure explores man's essential loneliness and remains one of Hardy's most widely read novels.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon its first appearance in 1895, Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marriage, education, and religion, reportedly causing one Angli-can bishop to order the book publicly burned. 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