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Far from the Madding Crowd (Oxford World's Classics)
by Thomas Hardy  
Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates... Read More
Publication Date: October 2008
 
 
 



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The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy  
In Thomas Hardy's classic novel, an ambitious man discovers that the blind energies and defiant acts that brought him to power can also destroy him.
Publication Date: April 2008
 
 
 



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The Return of The Native
by Thomas Hardy  
The native of Thomas Hardy's 1878 novel 'The Return of the Native' is Clym (Clement) Yeobright, a young man who gives a successful career as a diamond merchant in Paris to return to his native Egdon Heath to become a Schoolmaster and to help... Read More
Publication Date: January 2008
 
 
 



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A Mere Interlude
by Thomas Hardy  
Stories in the Travelman Short Stories series take the reader to places of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance, and corners of the universe yet unexplored. In turn, readers take them on the bus or subway, slip them into briefcases and... Read More
Publication Date: December 2007
 
 
 



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Far from the Madding Crowd (Thrift Edition)
by Thomas Hardy  
Hardy's first masterpiece, this 1874 novel received wide acclaim upon publication and remains among the author's best-loved works. The tale of a passionate, independent woman and her three suitors, it explores Hardy's trademark themes:... Read More
Publication Date: May 2007
 
 
 



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Under the Greenwood Tree
by Thomas Hardy  
1872 novel from the famous English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, who was awarded the Order of Merit in 1910.
Publication Date: May 2007
 
 
 



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The Well-Beloved
by Thomas Hardy  
1897 romance from the famous English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, who was awarded the Order of Merit in 1910.
Publication Date: May 2007
 
 
 



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A Group of Noble Dames
by Thomas Hardy  
1891 short story collection, by the English novelist, short story writer, and poet who was awarded the Order of Merit in 1910.
Publication Date: April 2007
 
 
 



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A Changed Man and Other Tales
by Thomas Hardy  
The great British novelist Thomas 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... Read More
Publication Date: April 2007
 
 
 



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A Group of Noble Dames
by Thomas Hardy  
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Publication Date: April 2007
 
 
 



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A Changed Man and Other Tales
by Thomas Hardy  
1913 short story collection, by the English novelist, short story writer, and poet who was awarded the Order of Merit in 1910.
Publication Date: April 2007
 
 
 



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Life's Little Ironies
by Thomas Hardy  
1894 short story collection, by the English novelist, short story writer, and poet who was awarded the Order of Merit in 1910.
Publication Date: April 2007
 
 
 



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Tess of the D'urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy  
This classic novel tells the story of how the poor rural couple John and Joan Durbeyfield become convinced that they are descended from the ancient family of d'Urbervilles. They encourage their innocent daughter Tess to cement a connection... Read More
Publication Date: March 2007
 
 
 



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Jude the Obscure (Thrift Edition)
by Thomas Hardy  
Hardy's masterpiece traces a poor stonemason's ill-fated romance with his free-spirited cousin. No Victorian institution is spared — marriage, religion, education — and the outrage following publication led the embittered author... Read More
Publication Date: January 2007
 
 
 



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Under the Greenwood Tree
by Thomas Hardy  
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... Read More
Publication Date: January 2007
 
 
 



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Wessex Tales
by Thomas Hardy  
In addition to his great 'Wessex Novels,' Thomas Hardy wrote 'Wessex Tales' (1896), a collection of six stories written in the 1880s and 1890s that, for the most part, are as bleakly ironic and unforgiving as the darkest of his great novels... Read More
Publication Date: January 2007
 
 
 



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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy  
Thomas Hardy's second to last novel, 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' is the story of Teresa 'Tess' Durbeyfield. The plot of the novel is set in motion when a local parson mentions that the Durbeyfields are actually related to the noble family the... Read More
Publication Date: January 2007
 
 
 



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The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy  
Set in the fictional town of Casterbridge, 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' is Thomas Hardy's tragic story of Michael Henchard who over indulges in alcohol at a county fair and decides to auction off his wife and daughter to a sailor. When he... Read More
Publication Date: January 2007
 
 
 



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Under The Greenwood Tree
by Thomas Hardy  
Under the Greenwood Tree' is the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new school mistress, Fancy Day. A pleasant romantic tale set in the Victorian era, 'Under the Greenwood Tree' is one... Read More
Publication Date: January 2007
 
 
 



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Wessex Tales
by Thomas Hardy  
1888 collection of short stories from the famous English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, who was awarded the Order of Merit in 1910.
Publication Date: January 2007
 
 
 



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Return of the Native Volume II [EasyRead Edition]
by Thomas Hardy  
The Return of the Native' revolves around a young girl named Eustacia Vye, a beautiful foreigner who had to struggle through out her life to achieve her will. It is the story of the character's struggle against fate. The narrative is about... Read More
Publication Date: November 2006
 
 
 



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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy  
Set in a peasant village in rural Victorian England, the author's best-known classic traces the persecution of one determined young woman by the closed-minded society around her and by fate on a cosmic scale. Reissue.
Publication Date: September 2006
 
 
 



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The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
by Thomas Hardy  
It was half-past four o'clock (by the testimony of the land-surveyor, my authority for the particulars of this story, a gentleman with the faintest curve of humour on his lips); it was half-past four o'clock on a May morning in the eighteen... Read More
Publication Date: September 2006
 
 
 



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The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
by Thomas Hardy  
Work from the famous English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, who was awarded the Order of Merit in 1910.
Publication Date: September 2006
 
 
 



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Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Enriched Classics (Pocket))
by Thomas Hardy  
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

A young woman challenges the conventions of her time in this classic novel about nineteenth-century English society.

THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:

Publication Date: June 2006
 
 
 



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The Return of the Native, Second Edition (Norton Critical Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
by Thomas Hardy  
This Second Edition reprints the text of the authoritative 1912 Macmillan Wessex Edition. It is accompanied by more than 500 editorial footnotes, many new to this edition, that provide essential historical background and glossing of dialect... Read More
Publication Date: April 2006
 
 
 



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A Pair of Blue Eyes (Oxford World's Classics)
by Thomas Hardy  
Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of his first wife, Emma. Blue-eyed and... Read More
Publication Date: September 2005
 
 
 



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The Return of the Native (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Thomas Hardy  
The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful... Read More
Publication Date: July 2005
 
 
 



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Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Oxford World's Classics)
by Thomas Hardy  
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. When Tess meets Angel... Read More
Publication Date: May 2005
 
 
 



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Far From the Madding Crowd (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Thomas Hardy  
Far From the Maddening Crowd, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship,... Read More
Publication Date: May 2005
 
 
 



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Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Introduction and notes by David Galef
by Thomas Hardy  
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful... Read More
Publication Date: May 2005
 
 
 



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Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Oxford World's Classics)
by Thomas Hardy  
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. When Tess meets Angel... Read More
Publication Date: May 2005
 
 
 



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The Return of the Native (Oxford World's Classics)
by Thomas Hardy  
To be loved to madness - such was her great desire' Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but... Read More
Publication Date: March 2005
 
 
 



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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thrift Edition)
by Thomas Hardy  
Hardy's novel begins with the famous scene in which Michael Henchard, a young farmer, gets drunk at a village fair and sells his wife and baby daughter to a passing sailor for five guineas. The consequences of this impulsive act are... Read More
Publication Date: November 2004
 
 
 



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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Thomas Hardy  
Hardy's novel begins with the famous scene in which Michael Henchard, a young farmer, gets drunk at a village fair and sells his wife and baby daughter to a passing sailor for five guineas. The consequences of this impulsive act are... Read More
Publication Date: November 2004
 
 
 



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The Well Beloved
by Thomas Hardy  
As the last of Hardy's novels to be published, The Well-Beloved has generated great scholarly interest recently. Partly autobiographical, it tells the story of the sculptor Jocelyn Pierston, whose search for the ideal woman in both Portland... Read More
Publication Date: September 2004
 
 
 



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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Oxford World's Classics)
by Thomas Hardy  
Set against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author's unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our... Read More
Publication Date: July 2004
 
 
 



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The Return of the Native (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Thomas Hardy  
There is this constant revelation in Hardy's novels: that there exists a great background, vital and vivid, which matters more than the people who are upon it. This is the wonder of Hardy's novels, and gives them their beauty. The vast,... Read More
Publication Date: December 2003
 
 
 



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Jude the Obscure (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Thomas Hardy  
"Nothing so coarsely indecent as the whole history of Jude in his relations with his wife Arabella has ever been put in English print," asserted M.O.W. Oliphant, the Scottish humorist. Hardy's "Jude the Obscure--the... Read More
Publication Date: December 2003
 
 
 



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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy  
Because of its sexual frankness and indictment of Victorian hypocrisy, Hardy's novel was considered shocking when it was published in 1891. It is the tale of Tess Durbeyfield, a young country girl whose rape by Alec D'Urberville, a distant... Read More
Publication Date: June 2003
 
 
 



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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy  
Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives,' the D'Urbervilles, in hope that they might help her alleviate her own family's poverty. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a... Read More
Publication Date: June 2003
 
 
 



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The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy  
Hardy's novel begins with the famous scene in which Michael Henchard, a young farmer, gets drunk at a village fair and sells his wife and baby daughter to a passing sailor for five guineas. The consequences of this impulsive act are... Read More
Publication Date: May 2003
 
 
 



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Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy  
When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a... Read More
Publication Date: May 2003
 
 
 



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Fellow Townsmen (Hesperus Classics)
by Thomas Hardy  
Subtly chronicling the cruel twists and turns of human fate, Fellow–Townsmen exemplifies Hardy’s enduring perfection of his literary craft—and the artistic brilliance of his passionate portrayal of the trials of the human... Read More
Publication Date: March 2003
 
 
 



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Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy  
Hardy's first major novel tells the story of the shepherd Gabriel Oak and his long, patient devotion to Bathsheba Everdene. Bathsheba's faithless husband is murdered by a neighboring farmer, William Bellwood, who also loves her. At the end of...