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Howard Barbour, Thomas Hardy
ASIN: B006SNSK7I
Publisher: eNotated Classics (January 1, 2012)
Pages: 850

Though most eBooks are simple conversions of paper books, “The eNotated Tess of the d’Urbervilles" is a completely new approach that takes advantage of the potential eBook technology offers to extend and enrich Thomas Hardy’s writing in a way that’s convenient to use while still unobtrusive to the reader. First published by Hardy in 1891, this edition of "Tess" includes a Hardy biography, a chronology of his life, a timeline of major events, 27 illustrations (with eleven original drawings from the 1898 edition) and eNotations that extend Hardy’s writing by providing a new layer of information behind the text the reader can access before, during, and after each chapter. For instance, in Chapter 1, when Hardy mentions hedgerows, Barbour’s eNotation tells us “Before the introduction of barbed wire livestock were detained in fields by stone walls, wooden fences or most commonly trimmed ...
Amazon Rating:
4.5 stars from 7 ratings