Libros de Thomas Hardy

Far From The Madding Crowd

• 360 páginas
• 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...

Woodlanders

• 336 páginas
• 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 disastrous, and in a moving tale that has vibrant characters, many humorous moment...

A Changed Man And Other Tales By Thomas Hardy, Fiction, Literary, Short Stories

• Hardy, among other things, was the author of the poem, "The Dead Man Walking." Considered the "writer of Dorset," Hardy’s fictional Wessex is perhaps bleaker than the real Dorset itself, long possessed of a hard, cold,...

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• A young member of the band turned her head at the exclamation. She was a fine and handsome..

Far From The Madding Crowd By Thomas Hardy, Fiction, Literary

• Bathsheeba Everdene (the only girl in this, ahm, ménage à quatre) has three suitors she must choose among: Gabriel Oak; wealthy, temperate, and middle-aged Farmer Boldwood; and Sergeant Francis Troy. And you know she picks the wrong one,...

Under The Greenwood Tree

• 168 páginas
• Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) preceded The Return of the Native and Far from the Madding Crowd, as the first of Thomas Hardy's novels set in Wessex. A holiday tale of charm and appeal, Under the Greenwood Tree was Hardy's second novel. The book...

Two On A Tower

• TWO ON A TOWER (1882) is a tale of star-crossed love in which Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers against the background of the stellar universe. The unhappily married Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls...

Tess Of The D'urbervilles

• 211 páginas
• Thomas Hardy has long been critically constructed as 'poet of Wessex' and 'novelist of Character and Environment'. This volume offers to deconstruct such a mythic 'Hardy' in selecting contemporary critical essays which re-present...

Desperate Remedies

• 512 páginas
• Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward...

Collected Poems Of Thomas Hardy

• This wonderful volume contains the complete poetical works of Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), was one of England’s greatest novelists during the nineteenth century, and one of its most esteemed poets of the twentieth. He was...

A Pair Of Blue Eyes

• 480 páginas
• When Elfrise Swanston meets Stephen Smith she is attracted to his handsome face, gentle bearing and the sense of mystery which surrounds him. Although distressed to find that the mystery consists only in the humbleness of his origins, she remains true...

Thomas Hardy

• 176 páginas
• Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was born in Dorset. He left school at sixteen to work as an apprentice for an architect who specialized in church restoration. He made his reputation as a novelist, and it wasn't until after the publication of his last novel,...

Satires Of Circumstances

• 240 páginas
• 1915. Hardy, English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, whose powerfully delineated..

Far From The Madding Crowd

• 508 páginas
• Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - WHEN Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were...

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Tess Of The D' Urbervilles

• 608 páginas
• 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...

The Mayor Of Casterbridge

• 448 páginas
• 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 prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge,...

Far From The Madding Crowd

• 480 páginas
• In Thomas Hardy’s first major literary success, 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 suito...

The Return Of The Native

• 448 páginas
• One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called "the real stuff of tragedy." The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes...

The Return Of The Native

• 496 páginas
• ‘You are ambitious, Eustacia–no not exactly ambitious, luxurious. I ought to be of the same vein, to make you happy, I suppose’