Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only...
Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, The Trumpet Major is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day, making us feel the impact...
Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony,...
Contains tales that tenderly re-create a vanishing rural world and scrutinise the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life. This book contains tales and sketches that possess the...
Introduction and Notes by Jane Thomas, University of Hull. The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 400, Editura: Wordsworth Editions, Autor: Thomas Hardy, ISBN-13: 9781853262388, Data emiterii: 1995...
Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastr...
Rich with biographical echoes, this novel reveals the emergence of the schematic ironies which characterise the author's later works...
Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. ' Beautiful, impulsive and spirited,...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 528, Editura: Harper Collins Publishers, Autor: Hardy, T. , ISBN-13: 9780007350919, Data emiterii: 2010...
Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names...
Full of passion, anger, fatalism and tragedy, Jude the Obscure attacks the inequalities and hypocrisies inherent within Victorian society's attitudes towards marriage, social mobility,...
'A tale of true tragedy - a man of potential brought down by his own fatal flaw - wonderfully vivid and strong' Joanna TrollopeThe Mayor of Casterbridge is a man haunted by his pas...
Penguin Readers Level 6: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (ELT Graded Reader)...
'I shall do one thing in this life - one thing for certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die. ' Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors...
Jude Fawley's ambitions to go to university are thwarted by class prejudice and his entrapment in a loveless marriage. His doomed love affair with his unconventional cousin has tragic...
'She looked absolutely pure. Nature, in her fantastic trickery, had set such a seal of maidenhood upon Tess's countenance that he gazed at her with a stupefied air: "Tess-...
The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute'Hardy's...
Michael Henchard is a wealthy and respected man, but he has a terrible secret. Twenty years ago, when he was unemployed and penniless, he sold his wife to a sailor. Now she is looking...
'Tremendous... utterly absorbing' Independent Proud, passionate Eustacia Vye marries Clym Yeobright in the hope that he will help her escape her cramped rural existence...
'Vital, passionate, spirited - from the moment Bathsheba appears she is beguiling' IndependentWhen Bathsheba Everdean arrives in the small village of Weatherbury she captures the heart...
'Thomas Hardy's thrilling story of seduction, murder, cruelty and betrayal' The TimesTess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbe...
'One of the most compassionate of all writers... you feel a kind of agony of helpless tenderness in the writer for all troubled souls' The Times Jude Fawley is a young man who longs...
A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is edited with notes by Tim Dolin...
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