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  • Introduction

  • Thomas Hardy
  • Edited by N. H. Reeve, Richard Nemesvari, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
  • Book:
    Wessex Tales
    Published online:
    21 January 2025
    Print publication:
    13 February 2025, pp xxxi-cvi

  • Summary

    Wessex Tales is Thomas Hardy’s first collection of stories. Published as two volumes in 1888, it contains some of his best-known short works, including ‘The Three Strangers’, ‘The Withered Arm’ and ‘Fellow-Townsmen’. The longest story in the collection, ‘The Distracted Preacher’, is an exciting tale of smuggling on the Dorset coast based on the recollections of Hardy’s family. The Cambridge copy-text is the first edition of Wessex Tales, but it also includes Hardy’s story ‘An Imaginative Woman’, which was added later in the 1896 Osgood, McIlvaine edition. As with all volumes in the Cambridge Edition, full information on the publication history of the text is provided, along with a complete record of substantive variants. Illustrations include frontispieces for the first American edition along with those for the Osgood, McIlvaine and Wessex Editions. All of the illustrations for ‘An Imaginative Woman’ that appeared with its original publication in the Pall Mall Magazine are also reproduced.

Catullus: Poem 64
  • Edited by Gail Trimble
  • Published online:
    24 January 2025
    Print publication:
    13 February 2025
  • Catullus' longest poem, a miniature epic or 'epyllion' that tells two apparently unrelated mythological stories, is a central text in the Roman literary tradition. Allusive, exquisite, and sometimes shocking, it offers a profound exploration of human connection and aesthetic response against a backdrop of universal history. This major new edition addresses the interpretative challenges of the poem on every level of detail. The corrupt text is newly edited, while a line-by-line commentary of unparalleled depth and range integrates discussion of textual and linguistic matters with sophisticated literary criticism and a thoroughgoing awareness both of the poem's cultural and intertextual background and of its subsequent influence and reception. The introduction sets Catullus 64 in context, and an innovative epilogue draws together the threads of an overall interpretation. This book is an essential resource for the study of Latin poetry, and will transform its readers' understanding and appreciation of Catullus 64.

Wessex Tales
  • Thomas Hardy
  • Edited by N. H. Reeve, Richard Nemesvari
  • Published online:
    21 January 2025
    Print publication:
    13 February 2025
  • Hardy's first collection of short stories, Wessex Tales contains some of his most famous narratives. 'The Three Strangers' is often described as the quintessential example of his short fiction, while 'The Withered Arm,' with its suggestion of supernatural influences and its shocking conclusion, has thrilled readers for over a century. Tales such as 'Fellow-Townsmen' and 'Intruders at the Knap' showcase Hardy's typically ironic approach to the relationship between the sexes, and 'The Distracted Preacher' shows his undervalued comic touch. The re-introduction of 'An Imaginative Woman' into the collection, which Hardy at one point inserted and then subsequently removed, restores the volume to his original intention. This edition provides an authoritative text and full scholarly apparatus, allowing the reader to trace Hardy's creative process for each of the stories. It also includes an introductory essay discussing the work's composition, publication and critical reception, and comprehensive explanatory notes.

The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith
  • Oliver Goldsmith
  • Edited by Michael Griffin, David O'Shaughnessy
  • Published online:
    12 December 2024
    Print publication:
    26 July 2018
  • This first modern scholarly edition of the letters of Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) sets the author of The Vicar of Wakefield, The Deserted Village, and She Stoops to Conquer in a rich context, showing how Goldsmith's Irish identity was marked and complicated by cosmopolitan ambition. He was at the very heart of Grub Street culture and the Georgian theatre, and was a founding member of Dr Johnson's Literary Club; his circle included Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, George Colman and Hester Piozzi. Containing a detailed introduction and extensive notes, this edition is essential to those wishing to know more about Goldsmith the man and the writer, and provides a rich and suggestive nexus for understanding the cultural cross-currents of the literary Enlightenment in eighteenth-century London.

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