Thomas Hardy
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The Selected Works of Thomas Hardy includes many of the esteemed author's best-known works: Far From the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure.
Influenced by the Romantics, Hardy's novels are deeply critical of the constraints of Victorian society, particularly those placed on women and the poor.
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The second collection of poetry from the author of such classics as Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd.
Although well known for his novels, like Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy also wrote poetry throughout his life. Poems of the Past and the Present is Hardy's second volume of poetry, originally published in 1901. This wide-ranging collection is divided into five sections: War Poems, Poems of Pilgrimage, Miscellaneous Poems,...
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"The Thomas Hardy Reader - Volume II" is a collection of three of Hardy's most beloved and celebrated books: "Far from the Madding Crowd," "Jude the Obscure" and "A Pair of Blue Eyes."
Universally acknowledged as one of the greatest novelists in English literary history, these three books represent Thomas Hardy at his best. In these novels, Hardy explores and expounds upon some of his most familiar themes: love, honor, loss, betrayal and tragic...
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Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who has purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family. She employs two architects, one local and one, George Somerset, newly qualified from London. Somerset represents modernity in the novel. The changing of the old order in country manors and mansions may be slow or sudden, may have many issues romantic or otherwise, its romantic issues being not necessarily restricted to...
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"Tess of the D'Urbevilles" is perhaps the best known novel by legendary British author Thomas Hardy.
This heartbreaking story revolves around young Tess, who is hiding a secret past when she marries a young farmer named Angel. She attempts to tell him everything, but he insists that she wait until after they are wed. When Angel learns - on their wedding night - that Tess had been the victim of a sexual assault and lost the resulting child,...
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This story of the Mellstock Quire and its old established west-gallery musicians, with some supplementary descriptions of similar officials in Two on a Tower, A Few Crusted Characters, and other places, is intended to be a fairly true picture, at first hand, of the personages, ways, and customs which were common among such orchestral bodies in the villages of the time.
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The Hand of Ethelberta explores the class distinctions of Victorian England through the trials of Ethelberta Petherwin. By the age of 18, the humble governess and daughter of a butler marries well, only to become a widow two weeks later. In order to support her mother and ten siblings, clever Ethelberta quickly learns to navigate the complex social world as a poetess and storyteller, attracting four persistent suitors along the way. She must decide...
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As popular today as they were during the author's lifetime, the works of Thomas Hardy captivate readers with their gripping narrative power and arresting imagery. This collection presents a trio of the author's finest and most representative short stories. "The Distracted Preacher," a flawless comedy graced with Shakespearean touches, concerns a pair of ill-matched lovers and the breakup of a little network of smugglers. "The Three Strangers" offers...
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Tom presents a simple and effective program geared towards dads with busy schedules to build a healthier lifestyle ultimately.
"Being a dad isn't easy, said Tom, a father of two young boys and an Active Guard Reserve (AGR) soldier. "You're busy all the time between work, the kids, chores, and fixing up the house. I'm just like you-someone who knows the struggle of trying to balance a career, being a husband and a father, and trying to stay healthy....
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Set in the fictional town of Casterbridge, "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is Thomas Hardy's tragic story of Michael Henchard, who over indulges in alcohol at a country fair and decides to auction off his wife and daughter to a sailor. When he recovers his sobriety, Mr. Henchard realizes his mistake, but it is too late to get his family back. Devastated by his impetuous actions he decides not to touch alcohol again for the next twenty-one years. The novel...
32) The Dynasts
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"The Dynasts" is an English-language drama in verse by Thomas Hardy. Hardy himself described this work as "an epic-drama of the war with Napoleon, in three parts, nineteen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes". Not counting the Forescene and the Afterscene, the exact total number of scenes is 131. The three parts were published in 1904, 1906 and 1908. Because of the ambition and scale of the work, Hardy acknowledged that The Dynasts was not a work...
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"The Thomas Hardy Reader - Volume I" is a collection of three of Hardy's most beloved and celebrated books: "Tess of the D'Urbevilles," "The Mayor of Casterbridge" and "The Return of the Native."
Universally acknowledged as one of the greatest novelists in English literary history, these three books represent Thomas Hardy at his best. In these novels, Hardy explores and expounds upon some of his most familiar themes: love, honor, loss, betrayal...
34) Jude l'obscur
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Extrait : "Le maître d'école quittait le village et chacun semblait attristé. Le meunier de Cresscombe lui avait prêté son cheval et sa petite charrette à bâche blanche pour transporter son mobilier à la ville o il devait se rendre, environ à vingt milles de là. Un tel véhicule était de dimensions suffisantes pour contenir les effets du magister qui s'en allait."
35) Winter Words
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This selection of Hardy's poetry does full justice to its humanity, integrity, humor and evocative power, ranging from charming anthology pieces such as 'Weathers' to the great love poems he wrote after the death of his first wife and the meditations on war and philosophy. The poems, nearly 80 in total, are set in the context of his life and thought, including personal writings by him and those closest to him.
36) Jude the obscure
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Jude the Obscure, the semi-autobiographical final novel from Thomas Hardy explores notions of surprising candor; within the eponymous protagonist lies the tragic truth of failed ambitions and relationships. In a fierce exploration of the darkness of love and the intellect, this is one of the great tragic novels of English literature.
Jude Fawley, an earnest boy from a rural English village, dreams of a life of academia despite his working-class background....
40) Jude the obscure
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Jude Fawley is a poor stone carver who is tricked into a loveless marriage and ultimately forced to give up his dreams of a university education. After his wife deserts him, he begins a scandalous relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead.