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The Woodlanders de Thomas Hardy

The Woodlanders

Autor Thomas Hardy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 oct 2025

Ce se întâmplă cu sufletul uman atunci când educația devine un zid, nu o punte către ceilalți? În Woodlanders, miza nu este doar o simplă poveste de dragoste neîmplinită, ci conflictul sâcâitor dintre loialitatea față de rădăcini și aspirațiile impuse de un nou statut social. Grace Melbury revine în Little Hintock transformată, iar privirea ei școlită nu mai poate găsi confort în simplitatea lui Giles Winterborne. Credem că Thomas Hardy reușește aici o analiză psihologică fină a izolării: personajele sale nu sunt doar victime ale destinului, ci și ale propriilor percepții despre ceea ce este „adecvat”. Stilul narativ împletește momente de un umor discret cu un patos autentic, totul pe fundalul unei naturi vii, care pare să respire odată cu protagoniștii. Putem afirma că această operă reflectă forța narativă din Under the Greenwood Tree combinată cu sensibilitatea tragică din Jude the Obscure — dar cu un glas propriu, mai așezat și mai profund ancorat în peisajul forestier. Spre deosebire de alte romane din seria Wessex, aici natura nu este doar decor, ci un martor mut la ironia tragică a unor vieți irosite din cauza conformismului. Thomas Hardy nu oferă consolare, ci expune cu o mână sigură consecințele aderării oarbe la convențiile sociale și religioase ale unei societăți victoriene în declin.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9798897188024
Pagini: 354
Dimensiuni: 145 x 222 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Lushena Books

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Recomandăm acest roman cititorilor care apreciază proza clasică de secol XIX și studiile de caracter profunde. Veți câștiga o perspectivă nuanțată asupra modului în care clasa socială și educația pot fragmenta identitatea personală. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care doresc să exploreze universul Wessex prin prisma unui realism melancolic, susținut de aparatul critic oferit de editura WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LTD.

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In The Woodlanders, his favorite among his own novels, Thomas Hardy created a chain of characters linked by misunderstanding, infidelity and requited love.

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'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.

Notă biografică

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin. Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex; initially based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Hardy's Wessex eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England. He destroyed the manuscript of his first, unplaced novel, but -- encouraged by mentor and friend George Meredith -- tried again. His important work took place in an area of southern England he called Wessex, named after the English kingdom that existed before the Norman Conquest.

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List of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Woodlanders; Editorial emendations; Textual notes; Record of variants – accidentals; End-of-line word division; Appendix A: the title-page verse; Appendix B: Hardy's prefaces; Appendix C: illustrations; Appendix D: description of substantive editions; Appendix E: compositorial stints for Macmillan's Magazine; Appendix F: 'pin-holes' in the manuscript of The Woodlanders; Appendix G: compositorial stints for the 1912 Wessex edition; Explanatory notes; Glossary of dialect terms; Map of Wessex.