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The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy's most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moon where ...Show more
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy; John Bayley (Introduction by)
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 Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics
'Do I desire unreasonably much in wanting what is called life - music, poetry, passion, war, and all the beating and pulsing that is going on in the great arteries of the world?' Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of ...Show more
The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, The Trumpet Major is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day, making us feel the impact of historical events on the immemorial local way of life - the glamour of the coming of George III and his soldiery, fears of ...Show more
The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary Well-Beloved - in s ...Show more
The Withered Arm : Little Black Classic by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'She bared her poor curst arm'. A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers ...Show more
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Phillip Mallett, Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews. Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a movin ...Show more
The Woodlanders by Margaret (INT) Thomas; Drabble Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Grace Melbury, the only daughter of a timber-merchant, arrives home in Little Hintock after an expensive education and her father looks to find a husband for her. There are two rivals for her hand: Giles Winterborn ...Show more
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
'If ever I forget your name let me forget home and heaven...But no, no, my love, I never can forget 'ee; for you was a good man, and did good things!'Love, and the erratic heart, are at the centre of Hardy's 'woodland story'. Set in the beautiful Blackmoor Vale, The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of ...Show more
Thomas Hardy Boxed Set - Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, the Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics
Set in Hardy's fictional realm of Wessex, these four charming novels have been brought together in a stunning clothbound set, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. From the moving and poetic story of Tess of the D'Urbervilles to the intensely dramatic tale of the Mayor of Casterbridge, t ...Show more