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Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: macmillan collector's library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. Part of the ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: black penguin 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 by Thomas Hardy
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Category: classics
Far from the Madding Crowd By Thomas Hardy Bathsheba Everdene, living in the quiet rural village of Weatherbury, is indeed disrupted by the 'madding crowd'. After shunning the first man to love her, the shepherd Gabriel Oak, she is courted by two others: the lonely and repressed farmer Boldwood, and the ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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Category: classics
Jude the ObscureBy Thomas HardyJude the Obscure, the last completed of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other ma ...Show more
Poems of Thomas Hardy: A New Selection by Thomas Hardy
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Category: classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is edited with notes by Tim Dolin and an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet in "Penguin Classics". When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship ...Show more
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
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 (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
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