HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO3031 5/6/03 "HARDY EDITIONS QUESTION"
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From: Thudecki@cs.com
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 21:18:25 EDT
Subject Hardy's Edition
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Can you or anyone tell me the best internet source to acquire some TH books
that I have not as yet read? Basically I have read the most well known novels
that my bookstore happens to carry. I would like to read many more. Was
looking on Amazon but could only find "A Pair of Blue Eyes" and "The Major of
C." I did find a sequel to Tess - I did not know TH wrote one. What was the
general opinion of the sequel - anyone read it? I would like to find some of
the more obscure novels as well. Any guidance is appreciated. Thanks, Janine

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From: "Richard Nemesvari" <rnemesva@stfx.ca>
Subject: ReHardy's Editions
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:49:11 -0300


I thought I would reply to a couple of Janine's questions. I checked
Amazon.com, and as far as I can tell they have all of Hardy's novels,
although you may have to search for them by title rather than just by typing
in Hardy's name. I was a little taken aback, however, at the limited
selection of editions that were provided. Not to appear too
self-interested, but neither my Oxford edition nor Linda Shires' Penguin
edition of *The Trumpet-Major* were listed, which struck me as strange since
they are both manifestly still in print. Instead, only Roger Ebbatson's
much older Penguin, and the Penguin "popular classics" edition were for
sale, both of which are (if you'll pardon me) inferior to Professor Shires
(and my) texts. I'm not sure what that's about. I think it might be useful
to try and track down more carefully edited and annotated versions of TH's
fiction than Amazon seems to want to make available.

Richard Nemesvari
Department of English
St. Francis Xavier University
rnemesva@stfx.ca

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From: "schweik" schweik@fredonia.edu
Subject: Hardy Editions
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 14:02:31 GMT


May I just second Richard Nemesvari's recent posting?
The best places to go for solid editions of Hardy's
texts are Oxford UP and Penguin. Of course Palgrave/
Macmilian also has the entire range of Hardy's
writings, but in the "New Wessex" edition, which is
really not suitable for scholarly reference.

Bob Schweik
Robert Schweik
schweik@fredonia.edu
schweikr@localnet.com

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Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 12:59:21 -0400
From: Robert Schweik <schweikr@localnet.com>
Subject: Re: Hardy Editions

In response to my own posting I should add--before
a host of scholars remind me--that in talking about
Palgrave/Macmillan editions of Hardy an exception
always must be made for Jim Gibson's editions of the
poetry which are, of course, authoritative.

Bob Schweik

schweik@fredonia.edu
schweikr@localnet.com

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From: Thudecki@cs.com
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 23:16:25 EDT
Subject: Re: Hardy Editions


In response to Bob's Schweik remarks:
I do have the Oxford World Classics and the Penquin English Library.
How do you rate the Bantam Classic editions? and for that matter the other
two I mentioned. I did not realise this could get so complicated. Are there
that many differences in the texts? I am new at this. Any guidance is
appreciated. Thanks for
your comments, Janine

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