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Classic Works of Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles, the Mayor of Casterbridge and Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Classic Works
Dealing with themes of determinism and inescapable fate, Thomas Hardy's novels are also reknowned for depicting the intimate relationship between character and the environment. Unflinchingly honest in portraying characters and their fortunes, Hardy depicts life with all its harsh realities. Tess of the ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute'. Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Bold ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: General | Series: Classy Classics
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 bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in con ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Tie-in Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is a special edition of Hardy's brilliant novel to tie in with the major new film starring Carey Mulligan, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenaerts, based on David Nicholls' screenplay. Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everden ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
A tale of love and loss - the first of Thomas Hardy's novels to win him widespread recognition and popularity - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in May 2015. 'I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you til ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics
'Every green was young, every pore was open, and every stalk was swollen with racing currents of juice'. This title comes with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Bathsheba Everdene arrives in the small village of Weatherbury and captures the heart of three very different men; Gabriel Oak, a quiet s ...Show more
Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics
'Here - I am waiting to know about this offer of mine. The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
"I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine...I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you, my own dear! Come to me - come to me, and save m ...Show more
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Classy Classics
When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to rev ...Show more
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics
'Do I desire unreasonably much in wanting what is called life - music, poetry, passion, war, and all the beating and pulsing that is going on in the great arteries of the world?' Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of ...Show more
The Withered Arm : Little Black Classic by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'She bared her poor curst arm'. A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers ...Show more
Thomas Hardy - Faber Nature Poets by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Faber Nature Poets
A selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber. At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus ...Show more