HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H0102 12/30/00 "THREE TUNS TAVERN QUESTION" ======================================================= From: "David Harris" Subject: The Three Tuns Tavern - Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 12:22:08 -0500 In chapter 38 of The Woodlanders, GilesÊperceives thatÊhe has "blundered" by taking Grace to a clean but shabby Sherton tavern referred to in at least one on-line edition as The Three Tuns.Ê In the Everyman's Library edition, the name of the tavern is absent: ÊÊÊÊÊ "He waited on some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, till he thought her lunch ended, and that he might fairly take advantage of her invitation to start her on her way home. He went straight to The Three Tuns--a little tavern in a side street, scrupulously clean, but humble and inexpensive."Ê On-Line Project Gutenberg Edition [which edition would this be?] Ê "He waited on some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, till he thought her lunch ended, and that he might fairly take advantage of her invitation to start her on her way home.Ê He went straight to where he had sent her, an old commercial tavern, scrupulously clean, but humble and inexpensive."Ê Everyman's Library, [1912 revised edition?]ÊÊ Ê II.ÊÊIn what edition did The Three Tuns first appear?Ê III.Ê In what edition did TheÊThree Tuns disappear? III.ÊÊFor what reason would Hardy have removed The Three Tuns?Ê Ê Thanks for the help.Ê Ê David Harris Ê I'm tempted to think "a little tavern in a side street"Êis a bit moreÊfetching than "an old commercial tavern."ÊÊOn the other hand, "he went straight to where he had sent her" may say more about Giles than does "he went straight toÊThe Three Tuns." ========== From: "Ahmad" Subject: Re: The Three Tuns Tavern - Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 20:17:29 +0200 Answers: Ê Ê I.Ê In the MS and all pre-1912 editions.Ê The online edition you quote is based on one of these editions. ÊII.Ê In the Wessex Edition (1912).Ê ÊÊÊÊ The source of these two answers is Professor Dale Kramer's critical edition of The WoodlandersÊ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), 264, n. 53; 265, n. 59. Ê III.Ê Hardy probably made the change to harmonize the text.Ê This is howÊ the inn is first referred to: "'It will be quite ready by the time you get there,' he [Giles] said, and told her the name of the inn at which the meal had been ordered, which was one that she had never heard of" (263).Ê Since Grace finished her schooling at Sherton, which is the nearest town to Little Hintock, it would be a little improbable that she had never heard ofÊ "The Three Tuns" tavern.Ê Suleiman M. Ahmad, Department of English, University of Damascus, Syria. (smahmad@mail.sy). ==========ÊÊ