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...

"Far from the Madding Crowd" von Thomas Hardy ist ein klassischer Roman, der das ländliche Leben im viktorianischen England beleuchtet. Die Geschichte dreht sich um Bathsheba Everdene, eine unabhängige und willensstarke junge Frau, die...

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...

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

"Jude the Obscure" ist ein Roman von Thomas Hardy, der das Leben von Jude Fawley verfolgt, einem jungen Mann aus einer ländlichen Gegend Englands, der davon träumt, an der Universität zu studieren und ein Gelehrter zu werden. Trotz...

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.

'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...

"Two on a Tower" ist ein Roman von Thomas Hardy, der erstmals 1882 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte spielt in der ländlichen Grafschaft Wessex und handelt von der unkonventionellen Liebesgeschichte zwischen Lady Viviette Constantine...

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...

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