The Trumpet-Major: A Tale (The Collected Works, Volume III).
by Thomas Hardy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0333006747
- ISBN 13
- 9780333006740
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, NY Peter Fenelon Collier, 1900. Hardcover Very Good: shows very light wear to extremities; mild rubbing to the panels; faint soil spots to the front panel. The binding us square and secure; the text is clean. A former owner's name rubber stamped at the the top of the front pastedown endpaper and another owner's plain bookplate affixed below it. A handsome, copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and some minor flaws. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.7 x 5 x 1 inches). iv, 428 pages. Green cloth over boards with gilt titles at the backstrip. Outside edges green-speckled. Language: English. Weight: 18 ounces. Hardback: No DJ 'as issued'.
Synopsis
Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth—Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. At sixteen, Hardy was apprenticed to an architect, and for many years, architecture was his profession; in his spare time, he pursued his first and last literary love, poetry. Finally convinced that he could earn his living as an author, he retired from architecture, married, and devoted himself to writing. An extremely productive novelist, Hardy published an important book every year or two. In 1896, disturbed by the public outcry over the unconventional subjects of his two greatest novels— Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure —he announced that he was giving up fiction and afterward produced only poetry. In later years, he received many honors. He died on January 11, 1928, and was buried in Poet’s Corner, in Westminster Abbey. It was as a poet that he wished to be remembered, but today critics regard his novels as his most memorable contribution to English literature for their psychological insight, decisive delineation of character, and profound presentation of tragedy.
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 50209
- Title
- The Trumpet-Major: A Tale (The Collected Works, Volume III).
- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0333006747
- ISBN 13
- 9780333006740
- Publisher
- Peter Fenelon Collier,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1900.
- Bookseller catalogs
- English Literature; Vintage Popular Fiction;
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