Fifteen-page early draft of his essay, Hardy and the Hag

by John Fowles

$19,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Lyme Regis? : ca. 1976-7. The manuscript comprises 15 quarto pages of typescript, and 3 pages of typed notes, all so thoroughly reworked in both pen and pencil in Fowles' hand that the original kernel of thought is transformed into a full-blown essay right before our eyes. Fowles inserts, deletes, adds paragraphs in the margins, and in three cases turns the sheet over and to write extensively on the versos. Even in this form the manuscript differs substantially from the published version

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