Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Hardy Thomas
Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Popular Classics)
DescriptionIn 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, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Dover Thrift Editions)
DescriptionA ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy's 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural lower class for a frank treatment of sexuality and religion. Then and now, his sympathetic portrait of a victim of Victorian hypocrisy offers compelling reading.
The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics)
DescriptionOne 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 of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the novel. The "native" is Clym Yeobright, who comes home from a cosmopolitan life in Paris. He; his cousin Thomasin; her fiancé, Damon Wildeve; and the willful Eustacia Vye are the protagonists in a tale of doomed love, passion, alienation, and melancholy as Hardy brilliantly explores that theme so familiar throughout his fiction: the diabolical role of chance in determining the course of a life.As Alexander Theroux asserts in his Introduction, Hardy was "committed to the deep expression of [nature's] ironic chaos and strange apathy, even hostility, toward man."
Jude the Obscure (Signet Classics)
DescriptionJude Fawley is a bright but impoverished stonemason who aspires to attend university and become a scholar. H is failure to fulfill the expectations of the two women he loves points to his final tragedy. Concerned with the destructive conventions of marriage and the English class system, Jude the Obscure is a raging indictment of Victorian society; the censure of this insightful book was almost without precedent in the history of English literature.
Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)
DescriptionFeatures:* illustrated with countless images relating to Hardy and his works * annotated with concise introductions to the novels and other texts * each novel has its own contents table - easily navigate between chapters! * many of the novels are fully illustrated with original artwork – enjoy the true flavour of the Victorian text on your Kindle! * information on the lost first novel ‘THE POOR MAN AND THE LADY', with a rare novella and poem tracing its content * ALL of the short stories with BOTH chronological and alphabetical contents tables * the compete plays – even including the rare “Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall” available nowhere else as a digital book * ALL of the poems with their own separate chronological and alphabetical contents tables – find that special poem easily and quickly! * the poems are ALSO presented in their original collections, each with its own table * scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * special Hardy’s Wessex Map to accompany your reading of the novels * includes a special criticism section, with 6 different texts from other authors and critics, examining Hardy's literary work in detail * D.H Lawrence's lengthy critical book A STUDY OF THOMAS HARDY * Hardy's wife's TWO biographies - explore the great writer's amazing life in detail - available nowhere else * UPDATED with improved text and formatting in response to a customer's review This truly is the ultimate Hardy collection, with all the novel, short fiction, poems and plays, which no respectable eBook collection should be without! Welcome to hours upon hours upon hours of reading one of literature’s greatest writers... Please note: we aim to provide the most comprehensive author collections available to Kindle readers. Sadly, it’s not always possible to guarantee an absolutely ‘complete’ works, due to copyright restrictions or the scarcity of minor works. However, we do ensure our customers that every possible major text and a wealth of other material are included. If you feel a significant text is missing, please contact us via our website. We are dedicated to developing and enhancing our eBooks, which are available as free updates for customers who have already purchased them. CONTENTS: The Novels THE POOR MAN AND THE LADY AN INDISCRETION IN THE LIFE OF AN HEIRESS DESPERATE REMEDIES UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE A PAIR OF BLUE EYES FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE THE TRUMPET-MAJOR A LAODICEAN TWO ON A TOWER THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE THE WOODLANDERS TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES JUDE THE OBSCURE THE WELL-BELOVED The Complete Short Stories CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF HARDY’S SHORT STORIES ALPHABETICAL LIST OF HARDY’S SHORT STORIES The Short Story Collections The Complete Poetry CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF HARDY’S POETRY ALPHABETICAL LIST OF HARDY’S POETRY The Poetry Collections WESSEX POEMS AND OTHER VERSES POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT TIME'S LAUGHINGSTOCKS AND OTHER VERSES and MORE... The Plays THE DYNASTS PART FIRST PART SECOND PART THIRD TRAGEDY OF THE QUEEN OF CORNWALL The Criticism A STUDY OF THOMAS HARDY BY D.H. LAWRENCE THOMAS HARDY BY LEON H. VINCENT THE LYRICAL POETRY OF THOMAS HARDY BY EDMUND GOSSE UNDER FRENCH ENCOURAGEMENT BY DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY THOMAS HARDY BY JOHN COWPER POWYS A NOTE ON THE GENIUS OF THOMAS HARDY BY ARTHUR SYMONS The Biographies THE EARLY LIFE OF THOMAS HARDY, 1841–1891 BY FLORENCE HARDY THE LATER YEARS OF THOMAS HARDY, 1892–1928 BY FLORENCE HARDY HARDY’S WESSEX MAP Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse our range of Complete Works titles Features: * illustrated with countless images relating to Hardy and his works * annotated with concise introductions to the novels and other texts * each novel has its own contents table - easily navigate between chapters! * many of the novels are fully illustrated with original artwork – enjoy the true flavour of the Victorian text on your Kindle! * information on the lost first novel ‘THE POOR MAN AND THE LADY', with a rare novella and poem tracing its content * ALL of the short stories with BOTH chronological and alphabetical contents tables * the compete plays – even including the rare “Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall” available nowhere else as a digital book * ALL of the poems with their own separate chronological and alphabetical contents tables – find that special poem easily and quickly! * the poems are ALSO presented in their original collections, each with its own table * scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * special Hardy’s Wessex Map to accompany your reading of the novels * includes a special criticism section, with 6 different texts from other authors and critics, examining Hardy's literary work in detail * D.H Lawrence's lengthy critical book A STUDY OF THOMAS HARDY * Hardy's wife's TWO biographies - explore the great writer's amazing life in detail - available nowhere else * UPDATED with improved text and formatting in response to a customer's review This truly is the ultimate Hardy collection, with all the novel, short fiction, poems and plays, which no respectable eBook collection should be without! Welcome to hours upon hours upon hours of reading one of literature’s greatest writers... Please note: we aim to provide the most comprehensive author collections available to Kindle readers. Sadly, it’s not always possible to guarantee an absolutely ‘complete’ works, due to copyright restrictions or the scarcity of minor works. However, we do ensure our customers that every possible major text and a wealth of other material are included. If you feel a significant text is missing, please contact us via our website. We are dedicated to developing and enhancing our eBooks, which are available as free updates for customers who have already purchased them. CONTENTS: The Novels THE POOR MAN AND THE LADY AN INDISCRETION IN THE LIFE OF AN HEIRESS DESPERATE REMEDIES UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE A PAIR OF BLUE EYES FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE THE TRUMPET-MAJOR A LAODICEAN TWO ON A TOWER THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE THE WOODLANDERS TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES JUDE THE OBSCURE THE WELL-BELOVED The Complete Short Stories CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF HARDY’S SHORT STORIES ALPHABETICAL LIST OF HARDY’S SHORT STORIES The Short Story Collections The Complete Poetry CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF HARDY’S POETRY ALPHABETICAL LIST OF HARDY’S POETRY The Poetry Collections WESSEX POEMS AND OTHER VERSES POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT TIME'S LAUGHINGSTOCKS AND OTHER VERSES and MORE... The Plays THE DYNASTS PART FIRST PART SECOND PART THIRD TRAGEDY OF THE QUEEN OF CORNWALL The Criticism A STUDY OF THOMAS HARDY BY D.H. LAWRENCE THOMAS HARDY BY LEON H. VINCENT THE LYRICAL POETRY OF THOMAS HARDY BY EDMUND GOSSE UNDER FRENCH ENCOURAGEMENT BY DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY THOMAS HARDY BY JOHN COWPER POWYS A NOTE ON THE GENIUS OF THOMAS HARDY BY ARTHUR SYMONS The Biographies THE EARLY LIFE OF THOMAS HARDY, 1841–1891 BY FLORENCE HARDY THE LATER YEARS OF THOMAS HARDY, 1892–1928 BY FLORENCE HARDY HARDY’S WESSEX MAP Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse our range of Complete Works titles Hardy Thomas News![]()
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