THE WORKS OF THOMAS HARDY [NOVELS AND TALES]. In Twelve Volumes. Including Far from the Madding Crowd; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Trumpet-Major; The Hand of Ethelberta; A Pair of Blue Eyes; Two on a Tower; A Laodicean; The Return of the Native; Desperate Remedies; Under the Greenwood Tree; The Woodlanders; Wessex Tales

HARDY, Thomas

Edité par Peter Fenelon Collier, New York, 1890

Octavo, Twelve Volumes [complete], each volume bound in contemporary half black calf over marbled paper boards, the spines lettered and decorated in gold, marbled page edges, decorated endpapers. Frontispieces with tissue guards in each volume, illustrated throughout. Some mild traces of wear and small scuffs. A very good, sound, clean set. An excellent set with gorgeous shelf-appeal. A surprisingly scarce set. Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), English novelist and poet. His novels tend to concern tragic rural characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances, and they are mosttly 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 south-west 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 of best-loved novels, The Big Read. 12 volumes : illustrations, portraits. Contents: v. 1. Far from the madding crowd v. 2. The Mayor of Casterbridge v. 3. The trumpet-major v. 4. The hand of Ethelberta v. 5 A pair of blue eyes v. 6. Two on a tower v. 7. A Laodicean v. 8. The return of the native v. 9. Desperate remedies v. 10. Under the greenwood tree v. 11. The woodlanders v. 12. Wessex tales. N° de réf. du vendeur 314506

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Titre : THE WORKS OF THOMAS HARDY [NOVELS AND TALES]...
Éditeur : Peter Fenelon Collier, New York
Date d'édition : 1890
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Edition : First Edition Thus (& 1st printing).