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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 (Collins Classics) by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics
HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!' Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural ...Show more
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Thomas Hardy's tragic vision of a love struggling to overcome prejudice and rejection, "The Return of the Native" is edited in "Penguin Classics" with an introduction by Penny Bouhmelha. Against the lowering background of Egdon Heath, fiery Eustacia Vye passes her days, wishing only for passionate love. ...Show more
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
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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
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy; Kathryn R. King (Editor)
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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