And one produced an 1889 “New and Cheaper Edition”, replete with advertisements for “Rowlands’ Macassar Oil” and “Whelpton’s Pills” (was he really that old?). Another had a copy stamped as the property of an Education Authority, from which he inferred he had taught the book, although he had no memory of doing so. Some members were sporting the latest editions, complete with 74 page critical appendices and peppered with learned footnotes. The Simmonds graphic novel is set in the present but loosely draws on the plot of the Hardy novel.Īn innovation introduced at the beginning of the meeting was a photo-call for the web-site, not, mercifully of the Monthly Book Group members, but of their varied editions of the Hardy novel. The discussion was of Thomas Hardy’s “Far From the Madding Crowd” (1874) and “Tamara Drewe” (2007) by Posy Simmonds.
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