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CRITICAL EDITIONS TESS OF THE D`URBERVILLES -...

The text is fully annotated and includes a separate table of contents for the novel to assist
readers in locating specific episodes or passages. Hardy's hand-drawn map of Wessex and the
manuscript title page for the first edition of his novel are also included. Hardy and the Novel
includes seven poems by Hardy that provide greater insight into his ethos  selections from
Michael Millgate's biography of Hardy that depict the relationship between episodes in Tess of
the D'Urbervilles and events in the author's life  and excerpts from Grindle and Gatrell's
introduction to the 1983 edition that discuss Hardy's revision process in both manuscripts and
early printed editions of the novel. Criticism features three contemporary reviews of the novel
not printed in the earlier Norton editions  including the first feminist review of Tess of the
D'Urbervilles. Also new are A Chat with Mr. Hardy  a hitherto unprinted post-publication
interview with the author about his new novel  and five carefully selected critical
interpretations. Essays by Elliot B. Gose  Jr.  Peter R. Morton  and Gillian Beer address
Hardy's debt to Charles Darwin  perhaps the single most important influence on Hardy's thought
and imagination  Raymond Williams's essay presents a Marxist perspective  and Adrian Poole
discusses the significance of Hardy's wisdom concerning the trouble men's words have with women
and the trouble women have with men's words. A Chronology  new to this edition  and a Selected
Bibliography are included.

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