1st Edition

Cancelled Words Rediscovering Thomas Hardy

By Rosemarie Morgan Copyright 1992
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

The manuscript of Hardy's first great novel Far From the Madding Crowd vanished shortly after its first publication. Rediscovered in 1918 it sheds remarkable new light on the whole of Hardy's work. The manuscript pages, some of which are reproduced here in facsimile, reveal Hardy's original composition in the novel, and the reluctantly `cancelled words' which were the result of a long struggle... Read more
Preamble `What sort of man is this...?' `the proper artistic balance...' `...a rich mine of quaintnesses and oddities...' `Close intersocial relations and eccentric individualities...' `A man's Damn...' `The form of its manifestation' `A curious frame of Nature's work'

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Rosemarie Morgan