The Years

This edition takes the first British edition of The Years as its copy-text, and includes a comprehensive introduction, extensive explanatory notes, and a full list of textual variants and editorial emendations.

• Features a comprehensive introduction, detailing the lengthy process of the composition and revision of the novel, and its subsequent publication history
• Includes extensive explanatory notes, highlighting the political, historical, social and literary contexts of the novel
• Provides a full account of the variants between the first British and American editions, supplemented by a list of editorial emendations made in this present edition

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