{"product_id":"thomas-hardy-5","title":"Thomas Hardy: The World of His Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA study of the fictious world in Hardy's novels in relation to real places and Hardy's real-life experiences.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThomas Hardy's Wessex is one of the great literary evocations of place, populated with colourful and dramatic characters. As lovers of his novels and poetry know, this 'partly real, partly dream-country' was firmly rooted in the Dorset into which he had been born.\u003cbr\u003e\nJ. B. Bullen explores the relationship between reality and the dream, identifying the places and the settings for Hardy's writing, and showing how and why he shaped them to serve the needs of his characters and plots. The locations may be natural or man-made, but they are rarely fantastic or imaginary. A few have been destroyed and some moved from their original site, but all of them actually existed, and we can still trace most of them on the ground today.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThomas Hardy: The World of his Novels\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for students of literature and for all Hardy enthusiasts who want to gain new insights into his work.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThomas Hardy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Take pleasure in a book like this one, which skillfully interweaves its evocative accounts of Hardy's life, of Dorset and Cornwall places, and of the stories unfolded from places in six of his novels (and a few poems) so that we vividly re-experience them. . . . The pleasures of this book (and they are real) come from its ability to re-enchant us in a way that is not un-Hardy-like, to draw us again into the intensely seen, heard, and felt world of the novels and poems. It set me to re-reading Hardy, with different eyes.\" —Review 19\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Livre numérique Kobo","offer_id":46235331756242,"sku":"e3f194df-b292-38c3-9c17-92a60f04bc84","price":19.19,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Couverture rigide","offer_id":46243904651474,"sku":"9780711232754","price":32.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_d0da4dca-51b5-4d75-96dd-9d4bfc644caf.jpg?v=1762881774","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/thomas-hardy-5","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}