Publisher's Synopsis
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The first one-volume version of the novel, from 1892, accompanied by the note to the first edition, preface to the fifth edition, and three appendices to the text.
- Detailed introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Phillip Mallett and Jane Thomas.
- Three illustrations.
- A selection of contextual materials on Hardy's Wessex and his nonfiction writings.
- Critical interpretations that include a wide variety of contemporary reviews and ten modern critical essays.
- A chronology of Hardy's life and a selected bibliography.
