This book explores the relationship between Thomas Hardy’s works and Victorian media and technologies of communication – especially the penny post and the t

The previously unpublished essays collected here are by literary scholars who have dedicated their lives to reading and studying nineteenth-century British fict

This book covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works while providing a comprehensive introduction to his life and times.

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has