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A Mere Interlude by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Display & Gift | Series: Penguin Great Loves
Part of Penguin's Great Love series. As Baptista travels home to marry her parents' old neighbour, she encounters her lost lover. They elope together, but tragedy strikes unexpectedly on their wedding day and she returns to her parents to do her duty. Will her other, brief love remain a secret? Unit ...Show more
Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Michael Irwin (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the l ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute'. Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Bold ...Show more
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
'Every green was young, every pore was open, and every stalk was swollen with racing currents of juice'. This title comes with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Bathsheba Everdene arrives in the small village of Weatherbury and captures the heart of three very different men; Gabriel Oak, a quiet s ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to W ...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 (Vintage Classic) by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics
Bathsheba Everdene arrives in the small village of Weatherbury and captures the heart of three very different men; Gabriel Oak, a quiet shepherd, the proud, obdurate Farmer Boldwood and dashing, unscrupulous Sergeant Troy. The battle for her affections will have dramatic, tragic and surprising consequen ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Thomas Hardy's last novel, "Jude the Obscure" is a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with an introduction by Dennis Taylor in "Penguin Classics". Jude Fawley's hopes of an education at Christminster University are dashed when he is trapped into marrying the wild, earthy ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics S.
Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have left earlier marriages. Ironically, when tragedy tests their union it is Sue, the modern emancipated woman, who proves unequal ...Show more
Selected Poems from Thomas Hardy by Hardy Thomas
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Category: Poetry | Series: Methuen Shilling S.
The Methuen Shilling series present the works of the finest poets in an accessible and popular format. Based on an original series from early in the last century, the shillings reproduce the attractive Edwardian format of those books, reflecting a prestigious publishing history and making some of the gr ...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.