This book explores the relationship between Thomas Hardy's works and Victorian media and technologies of communication - especially the penny post and the telegraph. Through its close analysis of letters, telegrams, and hand-delivered notes in Hardy's novels, short stories, and poems, it ties togeth[...]

Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich "relatives," the D'Urbervilles, in the hope that they might help her alleviate her own family's poverty. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads to suffering and betrayal. When she falls in love with another man,[...]

Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.[...]