Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - 書籍 - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781985033894 - 2018年2月12日
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Far from the Madding Crowd

In reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of "Far from the Madding Crowd," as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word "Wessex" from the pages of early English history, and give it a fictitious significance as the existing name of the district once included in that extinct kingdom. The series of novels I projected being mainly of the kind called local, they seemed to require a territorial definition of some sort to lend unity to their scene. Finding that the area of a single county did not afford a canvas large enough for this purpose, and that there were objections to an invented name, I disinterred the old one. The press and the public were kind enough to welcome the fanciful plan, and willingly joined me in the anachronism of imagining a Wessex population living under Queen Victoria;-a modern Wessex of railways, the penny post, mowing and reaping machines, union workhouses, lucifer matches, labourers who could read and write, and National school children.

メディア 書籍     Paperback Book   (ソフトカバーで背表紙を接着した本)
リリース済み 2018年2月12日
ISBN13 9781985033894
出版社 Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
ページ数 456
寸法 152 × 229 × 23 mm   ·   603 g
言語 英語  

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