Cancelled Words
The manuscript of Hardy''s first great novel Far From the Madding Crowd vanished shortly after its first publication. Rediscovered in 1918 it sheds remarkable new light on the whole of Hardy''s work. The manuscript pages, some of which are reproduced here in facsimile, reveal Hardy''s original composition in the novel, and the reluctantly `cancelled words'' which were the result of a long struggle...
The manuscript of Hardy''s first great novel Far From the Madding Crowd vanished shortly after its first publication. Rediscovered in 1918 it sheds remarkable new light on the whole of Hardy''s work. The manuscript pages, some of which are reproduced here in facsimile, reveal Hardy''s original composition in the novel, and the reluctantly `cancelled words'' which were the result of a long struggle...
