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Far From the Madding Crowd (Collector's Edition) by THOMAS HARDY
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Thomas Hardy brings us an England that once existed but no more. It is rural, traditional, pastoral - a society of mannered conduct that flows like a deep river where powerful currents eddy and swirl. In this powerful novel of love and disillusion, Hardy's heroine is torn between the three men in her li ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose r ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her confident presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted Shepard Gabriel Oak. Each, in ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Thomas Hardy; Judith John (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
This story opens with a lovely, poor and proud young woman who lives with her aunt. The young woman saves the life of a farmer who subsequently falls in love with her. However, the young woman inherits a fortune and moves away.On the flip side the farmer loses everything he has and travels around the co ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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 chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social o ...Show more
Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The proverbial phrase 'life's little ironies' was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal of the ...Show more
Selected Poetry by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) remains one of the best loved of the great English poets. Hardy thought of himself as a poet all his life, although his poetic career only flowered after he had retired from novel-writing in his mid-fifties. Over the next thirty years he wrote the poems that have established him ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
This critical edition of Thomas Hardy's 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the d'Urbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critica ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Collector's Edition) by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Thomas Hardy, never one to be conventional, took a very unconventional moral stance in this novel, which shocked Victorian readers. In doing so, he created one of the great romantic novels of all time, the story of a striking and tragic character who came to life for the reader as she did for the author ...Show more
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Thomas Hardy; Judith John (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
Thomas Hardy, (1840 - 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character'. The fast-moving and inge ...Show more
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy's most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moon where ...Show more