An Indiscretion In The Life On An Heiress

Description for AN INDISCRETION IN THE LIFE OF AN HEIRESS by Thomas Hardy edited and with an introduction by Terry Coleman: AN INDISCRETION IN THE LIFE OF AN HEIRESS is the basis of what Edmund Gosse described as 'the lost novel of Thomas Hardy'. It is published here in paperback for the first time. The novel is the moving story of the love between a village schoolmaster and the squire's daughter---a love that had to overcome all the obstacles that a class-ridden society could put in its way. It is a novel of considerable charm, full of touches of Hardy's distinctive genius. In its original form it was called THE POOR MAN AND THE LADY. After it was rejected for publication Hardy used some of the material in UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE and other early novels and the remainder, AN INDISCRETION IN THE LIFE OF AN HEIRESS, appeared in the "New Quarterly Magazine" in 1878.