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Under the Greenwood Tree

Autor Thomas Hardy Editat de Simon Gatrell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 aug 2019

La o primă vedere, Under the Greenwood Tree pare a fi doar o idilă pastorală senină, o frescă luminoasă a vieții rurale dintr-o Anglie demult apusă. Totuși, sub stratul de umor blând și ironie discretă, cititorul descoperă o cronică melancolică a schimbării ireversibile. Notăm cu interes felul în care Thomas Hardy reușește să mențină un echilibru fragil între optimismul tinerilor îndrăgostiți, Dick Dewey și Fancy Day, și declinul simbolic al corului bisericesc din Mellstock. Această structură narativă dublă transformă volumul într-un studiu despre trecerea timpului și eroziunea tradițiilor. Stilul are ceva din proza lui George Eliot, fără să fie o imitație — Thomas Hardy înlocuiește analiza psihologică densă cu o atenție aproape picturală pentru detalii, amintind de precizia maeștrilor olandezi, așa cum sugerează și subtitlul original al operei. Dacă în lucrări precum The Woodlanders regăsim o viziune mult mai sumbră asupra mobilității sociale și a iubirii neîmplinite, aici autorul alege un ton mai cald, deși prevestește deja temele majore ale marii sale opere victoriene. Reținem că această ediție de la WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LTD beneficiază de expertiza cercetătoarei Claire Seymour, ale cărei note și introducere oferă contextul necesar pentru a înțelege complexitatea unei societăți rurale aflate la răscruce. Este un roman fundamental pentru cei care doresc să exploreze rădăcinile realismului victorian într-o formă poetică și accesibilă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107089020
ISBN-10: 1107089026
Pagini: 554
Ilustrații: 3 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.94 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm acest roman cititorilor care caută o poartă de intrare în universul lui Thomas Hardy. Spre deosebire de tragediile sale consacrate, volumul oferă o experiență de lectură mai luminoasă, dar la fel de profundă. Veți câștiga o perspectivă autentică asupra lumii rurale englezești, înțeleasă nu ca un decor static, ci ca un organism viu care se transformă sub presiunea modernității.


Descriere scurtă

Hardy's second published novel, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), the first of his great series of Wessex novels, was originally published anonymously. As part of the Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides readers with an authoritative and accurate text of the novel; moreover it gives access to every revision that Hardy made, and to notations of all the errors introduced by printers' compositors. The annotated text is surrounded by an introduction that gives a very full account of the genesis, the writing and the publishing history of the novel. A range of appendices and comprehensive explanatory notes explore significant aspects of the composition, production and marketing of the novel, touched on in the introduction, to provide a full understanding of the nature and life of this classic work.

Cuprins

List of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Under the Greenwood Tree; Variants in punctuation and styling; End-of-line hyphenation; Editorial emendations; Appendix A. Hardy's preface to the Wessex Edition; Appendix B. Under the Greenwood Tree and The Poor Man and the Lady; Appendix C. Detailed analysis of the manuscript; Appendix D. Chapter-division in the manuscript; Appendix E. Watermarks in the manuscript; Appendix F. The compositors of the first edition; Appendix G. Robson's compositors in A Pair of Blue Eyes; Appendix H. Differences between the first and second editions; Appendix I. Printing orders for Under the Greenwood Tree Published by Chatto and Windus and Macmillan; Appendix J. Frontispieces; Appendix K. Description of substantive editions; Explanatory notes.

Descriere

First comprehensive critical edition of Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) analyses Hardy's many revisions and offers essential contextual material.

Notă biografică

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 - 11 January 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, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. 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. Two of his novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, were listed in the top 50 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.