Following a series of misfortunes, Tess Durbeyfield leaves her impoverished family to seek work with her rich relations. von Hardy, Thomas

Jude Fawley's ambitions to go to university are thwarted by class prejudice and his entrapment in a loveless marriage. His doomed love affair with his unconventional cousin has tragic consequences. Hardy's last, and most controversial...

Formerly a prize-winning architectural student, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) went on to become a prolific novelist and poet. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a powerful and sympathetic psychological study of a heroic but flawed man, set against...

The Mayor of Casterbridge von Hardy, Thomas

4 new books to the "Vintage Classics" series, from Thomas Hardy. Hardy was one of the most acclaimed novelists of the late 19th century, and many of his books are on the National Curriculum. von Hardy, Thomas

A Pair of Blue Eyes - A Novel: Vol. II. is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking...

'You are ambitious, Eustacia-no not exactly ambitious, luxurious. I ought to be of the same vein, to make you happy, I suppose'Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the...

When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been discussed between her and Giles, Grace finds herself...

Niveau A1 Beginner Level 5.-6. Klasse / 600 Wörter Dieser romantische Klassiker spielt zur Zeit der Napoleonischen Kriege und erzählt die Geschichte der beiden Brüder John und Robert Loveday, die beide die schöne Anne Garland umwerben.

This tale of a passionate, independent woman and her three suitors explores Hardy's trademark themes: thwarted love, the inevitability of fate, and the encroachment of industrial society on rural life. von Hardy, Thomas

The new graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. von Hardy, Thomas

The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy '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...