Annoted Cover 2010-full-correct spine.indd - Penguin Group

Far from the Madding Crowd
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Rosemarie Morgan with Shannon Russell
In this tale of rural romance—and Hardy’s
most humorous novel—the capricious
and willful Bathsheba Everdene is wooed
by three very different men and comes to
comprehend the true nature of generosity,
humility, and, ultimately, love.
480 pp. 978-0-14-143965-5 $8.00
The Fiddler of the Reels and
Other Stories
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Keith Wilson and Kristin Brady
Written with Hardy’s customary
compassion for ordinary women and his
sharp sense of irony, these eleven stories
tell of romantic disasters, betrayals,
misunderstandings, and cruelties. And, as
in his novels, it is frequently the women
who fall in love unwisely, in defiance of
their class, their expectations, or their
family loyalties, and suffer for their
impulsiveness.
288 pp. 978-0-14-043900-7 $13.00
The Hand of Ethelberta
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Tim Dolin and Illustrations by
George du Maurier
This tale of an opportunistic yet ultimately
loyal adventuress, who begins life humbly
and ends as the wife of a rakish aristocrat,
will surprise readers of Hardy’s more
familiar, and darker, Wessex novels.
512 pp. 978-0-14-043502-3 $16.00
112 Penguin ClassiCs
Jude the Obscure
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Dennis Taylor
In this haunting love story, the
stonemason Jude Fawley and Sue
Brideshead, both having left earlier
marriages, find happiness in their
relationship. Ironically, when tragedy
tests their union, it is Sue, the modern
emancipated woman, who proves unequal
to the challenge. This edition reprints the
1895 text with Hardy’s Postscript of 1912.
528 pp. 978-0-14-043538-2 $10.00
1 map
Penguin Readers Guide Available
A Laodicean
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
John Schad
Hardy’s experience as a professional
architect shines through in the meticulous,
highly visual descriptions of towns
and buildings in this novel. Using the
restoration of a castle as a framework,
Hardy considers the ancient analogy
between architecture and philosophy.
512 pp. 978-0-14-043506-1 $15.00