The Hand of Ethelberta

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The Hand of Ethelberta
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The Hand of Ethelberta

Thomas Hardy
Edition year 1993
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Peter Reddick
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 394
Dimensions 22.7 × 14.7 cm

Edition details

The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy, introductions by Trevor Johnson, map endleaves. Thirteen wood-engravings, orange-brown cloth, 394 pp.

About the book

Thomas Hardy's The Hand of Ethelberta is a lively social comedy following an intelligent and resourceful young woman determined to improve her position in Victorian society. Ethelberta carefully manages her complicated family background while attracting several potential suitors from very different social levels. Hardy uses her efforts to explore class, marriage, social mobility and the importance of appearances, producing one of his lighter and more humorous novels. Ethelberta moves between different social worlds while concealing aspects of her family background and managing several competing romantic possibilities.

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