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| Publication Date: October 2008 |
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| The Mayor of Casterbridge |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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. |
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| Publication Date: April 2008 |
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| The Return of The Native |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: January 2008 |
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| A Mere Interlude |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: December 2007 |
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| Publication Date: May 2007 |
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| Under the Greenwood Tree |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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. |
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| Publication Date: May 2007 |
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| The Well-Beloved |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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. |
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| Publication Date: May 2007 |
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| Publication Date: April 2007 |
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| A Changed Man and Other Tales |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: April 2007 |
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| Publication Date: April 2007 |
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| Publication Date: April 2007 |
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| Publication Date: April 2007 |
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| Tess of the D'urbervilles |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: March 2007 |
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| Jude the Obscure (Thrift Edition) |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: January 2007 |
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| Under the Greenwood Tree |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: January 2007 |
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| Wessex Tales |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: January 2007 |
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| Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: January 2007 |
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| The Mayor of Casterbridge |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: January 2007 |
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| Under The Greenwood Tree |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: January 2007 |
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| Wessex Tales |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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. |
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| Publication Date: January 2007 |
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| Publication Date: November 2006 |
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| Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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. |
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| Publication Date: September 2006 |
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| The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: September 2006 |
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| Publication Date: September 2006 |
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| Publication Date: June 2006 |
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| Publication Date: April 2006 |
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| Publication Date: September 2005 |
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| Publication Date: July 2005 |
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| Publication Date: May 2005 |
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| Publication Date: May 2005 |
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| Publication Date: May 2005 |
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| Publication Date: May 2005 |
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| Publication Date: March 2005 |
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| Publication Date: November 2004 |
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| Publication Date: November 2004 |
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| The Well Beloved |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: September 2004 |
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| Publication Date: July 2004 |
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| Publication Date: December 2003 |
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| Publication Date: December 2003 |
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| Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: June 2003 |
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| Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: June 2003 |
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| The Mayor of Casterbridge |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: May 2003 |
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| Far from the Madding Crowd |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: May 2003 |
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| Fellow Townsmen (Hesperus Classics) |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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 |
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| Publication Date: March 2003 |
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| Far from the Madding Crowd |
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| by Thomas Hardy |
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| 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... | | | | | |