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Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
"I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine...I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you, my own dear! Come to me - come to me, and save m ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is edited with notes by Tim Dolin and an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet in "Penguin Classics". When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics
The novel is set in impoverished rural Wessex during the Long Depression. Tess is the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield, uneducated rural peasants. One day, Parson Tringham informs John that he has noble blood. Tringham, an amateur genealogist, has discovered that "Durbeyfield" is a corruption o ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Collector's Edition) by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Thomas Hardy, never one to be conventional, took a very unconventional moral stance in this novel, which shocked Victorian readers. In doing so, he created one of the great romantic novels of all time, the story of a striking and tragic character who came to life for the reader as she did for the author ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Word Cloud Classics) by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
A classic novel that explores how the moral standards of Victorian England affected a young woman seeking her place in society. Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles is a masterpiece of late 19th-century literature, presenting the story of Tess, a poor girl from rural England who faces ...Show more
Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics
Tess is just a humble milkmaid when the local landowner has his wicked way. Her new beau, the smarmy Angel Clare, is none too pleased when he finds out she's already been deflowered. What is a girl to do? Bloody revenge of course, and an ending to touch the hardest of hearts.
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
A haunting study of guilt and lost love in "Penguin Classics", Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is edited with an introduction and notes by Keith Wilson. In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the foll ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Clothbound Classic) by Thomas Hardy; Keith Wilson (Editor); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
At a country fair near Casterbridge in the fictional county of Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan. Drunk on rum-laced furmity he auctions her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober the n ...Show more
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | 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 Withered Arm : Little Black Classic by Thomas Hardy
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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
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
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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