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Address: http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/hardy/index.html
Contact: Antony Freeman (antony@maytech.net)
Date: 07/01/04

Bibliomania provides e-texts of reference works, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. It is supported by Bibliomania.com, Ltd, of 26 Gayton Rd., London. This Bibliomania Hardy sub-page supplies a biographical note on Hardy as well as HTML texts, in chapter segments, of five Hardy works: Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, and "Squire Petrick's Lady" from A Group of Noble Dames. In addition, it supplies a "Study Guide" for Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and links to four remote sites related to Hardy. Bibliomania.com, Ltd. requires that the texts it provides not be reproduced in any form without permission.

Hyperlinks from the Bibliomania home page <http://www.bibliomania.com> allow searches of electronic editions of such reference sources as the following: (1) The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer, 1894; (2) The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, Plots, References by E. Cobham Brewer, [1884], and (3) Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.

COMMENT:

Bibliomania often does not reveal the sources of its e-texts, and no information is provided about the print sources from which the Hardy texts were derived or about the procedures used to assure their accuracy. In fact, they are marred by very many typographical errors and are not suitable for scholarly reference. See our GENERAL CAUTION about such texts. The four links to Hardy-related sites are all described, evaluated, and available from this TTHA site.

The author of the "Study Guide" for Tess of the d'Urbervilles is not identified. The guide is divided into six main parts: (1) Biography, (2) Synopsis, (3) Themes, (4) Imagery and Symbolism and (5) Further Reading. The biography is a brief four paragraphs and very general; the six-paragraph synopsis is unexceptional. "Themes" provides brief comments on "fate" and "nature"; "Imagery and Symbolism" touches on classical mythology and the color red. The seven-item "Further Reading" is well-selected.

The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, Plots, References, Webester's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, and other reference sources are searchable by key words, with various other options. Because these reference works have been subsequently revised multiple times since the texts represented here, searches may not find information now available in more recent editions.