![]() 50-51 Sadleir, XIX Century Fiction, 1111 Webb pp. ![]() He takes his place at once with certain towering and possessed figures of Melville, Hawthorne, and Dostoevsky" (Thomas Hardy: The Novels and Stories, New York: 1949). The main character Henchard, according to the critic Albert Guerard, "stands at the very summit of his creator's achievement his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction. The novel is widely judged to be one of Hardy's masterpieces. The book was published on in 758 copies, of which only 650 were bound it is consequently scarce, especially such a sharp example in the original cloth. ![]() First edition in book form, the first complete publication of the text, having been published in a bowdlerized text in both the Graphic and Harper's Weekly from 2 January to. ![]()
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