Saturday, January 23, 2021

My Thomas Hardy Shrine

My 1905 Harpers set of Hardy novels is almost complete.
 
Aside from having read the major novels Jude, Tess, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Mayor of Casterbridge---plus various bios---in the past 6 months (in various editions), I've also embarked on reading all of his novels in the order published, from the complete 1975 Wessex Edition: I recently finished his first, Desperate Remedies, and just started on the second, Under the Greenwood Tree.

I almost have all of the poetry in individual volumes. (And, lordy, I am not looking forward to tackling The Dynasts, whatever genre THAT might be considered...)

And I just bought a wooden frame and some postcards from the UK to go in it, to crown the whole collection.






 

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