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Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Bathsheba Everdene is a headstrong young woman who attracts the attentions of a succession of ill-matched suitors: a quiet sheep farmer, a handsome soldier and an older, wealthy landowner. As the men vie for her affections, she struggles to retain her independence of spirit in the face of their declarat ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Thomas Hardy; Judith John (Contribution by)
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
This story opens with a lovely, poor and proud young woman who lives with her aunt. The young woman saves the life of a farmer who subsequently falls in love with her. However, the young woman inherits a fortune and moves away.On the flip side the farmer loses everything he has and travels around the co ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd: Movie Tie-in Edition by Thomas Hardy
Category: Accessories
This story of a proud rural beauty and the three men who court her is the novel that first made Thomas Hardy famous. Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, "Far from the Madding Crowd" is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy's great novels. The strong-minded Bathsheba Everdene- ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd: Penguin Readers Level 5 by Thomas Hardy
Category: Children's Fiction
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting cont ...Show more
Hardy Poems by Thomas Hardy; Peter Washington
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Distinguished as both a great novelist and a great poet, Thomas Hardy's writing career spanned more than 60 years. A master of the short lyric and the vivid narrative, Hardy is the poet of remembrance and tender regret; but he is also an ironist with sharp observations of human frailty.
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics
Jude Fawley is a young man who longs to better himself and go to Christminster University. However, poverty forces him into a job as a stonemason and an unhappy marriage. When his wife leaves him Jude moves to Christminster determined to follow his dream. There he meets and falls for his free-spirited c ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, dreams of studying at the famous university in Christminster, Hardy's fictional representation of Oxford. He embarks on years of private study, but his plans are thrown into disarray when he is deceived into marriage and then deserted by ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social o ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Thomas Hardy's final novel: A passionate and tragic story of the follies of Victorian England's most rigid institutions: class, marriage, and higher education Growing up in southern England, Jude Fawley dreams of one day transcending his country life and becoming a scholar at Christminster's most pre ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Thomas Hardy's last novel, "Jude the Obscure" is a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with an introduction by Dennis Taylor in "Penguin Classics". Jude Fawley's hopes of an education at Christminster University are dashed when he is trapped into marrying the wild, earthy ...Show more