Under the Greenwood Tree (The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Annotated, 8/15/2019
EAN 9781107089020, ISBN10: 1107089026
Hardcover, 552 pages, 23.6 x 16.3 x 3.4 cm
Language: English
Hardy's second published novel, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), the first of his great series of Wessex novels, was originally published anonymously. As part of the Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides readers with an authoritative and accurate text of the novel; moreover it gives access to every revision that Hardy made, and to notations of all the errors introduced by printers' compositors. The annotated text is surrounded by an introduction that gives a very full account of the genesis, the writing and the publishing history of the novel. A range of appendices and comprehensive explanatory notes explore significant aspects of the composition, production and marketing of the novel, touched on in the introduction, to provide a full understanding of the nature and life of this classic work.
List of illustrations
General editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Abbreviations
Introduction
Under the Greenwood Tree
Variants in punctuation and styling
End-of-line hyphenation
Editorial emendations
Appendix A. Hardy's preface to the Wessex Edition
Appendix B. Under the Greenwood Tree and The Poor Man and the Lady
Appendix C. Detailed analysis of the manuscript
Appendix D. Chapter-division in the manuscript
Appendix E. Watermarks in the manuscript
Appendix F. The compositors of the first edition
Appendix G. Robson's compositors in A Pair of Blue Eyes
Appendix H. Differences between the first and second editions
Appendix I. Printing orders for Under the Greenwood Tree Published by Chatto and Windus and Macmillan
Appendix J. Frontispieces
Appendix K. Description of substantive editions
Explanatory notes.