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Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her confident presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted Shepard Gabriel Oak. Each, in ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Tie-in Ser.
This is a special edition of Hardy's brilliant novel to tie in with the major new film starring Carey Mulligan, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenaerts, based on David Nicholls' screenplay. Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everden ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics
'...the past was yesterday; the future, tomorrow; never, the next day' It's the 1870s and Bathsheba Everdene is a woman ahead of her time. Within the confines of rural English society, her independence and impulsive nature quickly land her at the heart of a web of love and lies. Three very different men ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics
A tale of love and loss - the first of Thomas Hardy's novels to win him widespread recognition and popularity - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in May 2015. 'I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you til ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose r ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics
Far from the Madding Crowd By Thomas Hardy Bathsheba Everdene, living in the quiet rural village of Weatherbury, is indeed disrupted by the 'madding crowd'. After shunning the first man to love her, the shepherd Gabriel Oak, she is courted by two others: the lonely and repressed farmer Boldwood, and the ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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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
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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 (Clothbound Classic) by Thomas Hardy; Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator); Dennis Taylor (Notes by, Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The innocent and naive Jude Fawley is trapped into marriage by the seductive Arabella Donn. But their union is an unhappy one, and Arabella leaves him. Jude's welcome freedom allows him to pursue his obsession with his pretty cousin, Sue Bridehead, a brilliant, charismatic freethinker who would be his i ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This critical edition of Thomas Hardy's 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the d'Urbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critica ...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