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Thomas Hardy - Faber Nature Poets by Thomas Hardy
Category: Gift | Series: Faber Nature Poets
A selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber. At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus ...Show more
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics
'Then they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet to star, from single stars to double stars, from double to coloured stars...' Hardy's atmospheric, moving story of star-crossed lovers shows human beings at the mercy of forces far beyond their control, setting a tragic drama of human passion and ...Show more
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made av ...Show more
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy as a writer. Ho ...Show more
Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift ed ...Show more
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy; Kathryn R. King (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. But these tales also portray the social and economic stresses of 1880s Dorset, and reveal Hardy's growing scepticismabout the pos ...Show more
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Michael Irwin (Intro and Notes by)
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Wessex Tales is a collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy's birth in 1840In 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, ...Show more