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Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy; Patricia Ingham (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The powerful and moving novel that shocked readers in 1891"A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away." ? Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is heartbreakingly beautiful ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Tess of the d'Urbervilles ,A Pure Woman Faithfully PresentedThomas Hardy"Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to t ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics
The novel is set in impoverished rural Wessex during the Long Depression. Tess is the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield, uneducated rural peasants. One day, Parson Tringham informs John that he has noble blood. Tringham, an amateur genealogist, has discovered that "Durbeyfield" is a corruption o ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
Set in a fictional rural English town, The Mayor of Casterbridge is considered one of Thomas Hardy's masterpieces. After drunken young hay-trusser Michael Henchard loses his wife and baby daughter after auctioning them off at the county fair, he vows not to touch liquor again. But when they return 18 ye ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Michael Henchard knew he deserved the pain he felt. Henchard is a handsome farm laborer. When he gets drunk at a country fair, he sells his wife and child to a sailor. The next day, ashamed by what he has done, he lets people believe that his wife has died. Thus begins a chain of events which leads Henc ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
A haunting study of guilt and lost love in "Penguin Classics", Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is edited with an introduction and notes by Keith Wilson. 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 foll ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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 Mayor of Casterbridge (Clothbound Classic) by Thomas Hardy; Keith Wilson (Editor); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
At a country fair near Casterbridge in the fictional county of Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan. Drunk on rum-laced furmity he auctions her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober the n ...Show more
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy; John Bayley (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
A Greek Tragedy in Form of a 19th-century British Novel "Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful." - Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native Edgon Heath is a mystical place ...Show more
The Woodlanders by Margaret (INT) Thomas; Drabble Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library