Télécharger le livre :  A Laodicean
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The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the work. Somerset falls in love with Paula but she, the Laodicean of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Pair of Blue Eyes
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'Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.' Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began the book during the first days of his courtship of his first wife...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
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'Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.' Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began the book during the first days of his courtship of his first wife...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales
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The darkly passionate short stories of Thomas Hardy are compelling explorations of love, social class, superstition and legend. This collection contains many of his finest and most representative, and includes 'The Withered Arm', an eerie depiction of arcane witchcraft...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Woodlanders
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'If ever I forget your name let me forget home and heaven...But no, no, my love, I never can forget 'ee; for you was a good man, and did good things!' Love, and the erratic heart, are at the centre of Hardy's 'woodland story'. Set in the beautiful Blackmoor Vale, The...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2005-02-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Woodlanders
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'If ever I forget your name let me forget home and heaven...But no, no, my love, I never can forget 'ee; for you was a good man, and did good things!' Love, and the erratic heart, are at the centre of Hardy's 'woodland story'. Set in the beautiful Blackmoor Vale, The...

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Parution : 2005-02-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Return of the Native
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'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire' Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Mayor of Casterbridge
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'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Mayor of Casterbridge
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'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2004-06-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Desperate Remedies
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'She was swayed into emotional opinions concerning the strange man before her; new impulses of thought...entered into her with a gnawing thrill.' Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. The anti-hero, Aeneas...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2003-09-11

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Télécharger le livre :  The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories 1888-1900
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The Melancholy Hussar/ A Tragedy of Two Ambitions/The First Countess of Wessex/ Barbara of the House of Grebe/ For Conscience' Sake/The Son's Veto/ On the Western Circuit/ An Imaginative Woman/ A Changed Man/ Enter a DragoonThe 11 short storiesin this collection range...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-05-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Far from the Madding Crowd
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'I shall do one thing in this life - one thing for certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.' Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2002-11-14

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Télécharger le livre :  The Return of the Native
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THE RETURN OFTHE NATIVE was written towards the beginning of Hardy's career as a novelist and can be considered one of his most representative works. In this novel, Hardy's tragic vision is powerfully and narrowly focussed on Egdon Heath and the men and women who live...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1999-06-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Oxford World's Classics: Two on a Tower
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Published in 1882, his ninth novel, Two on a Tower is Hardy's most complete and daring treatment of the theme of love between characters of different classes and ages. Viviette, the married lady of the manor, is nine years older than Swithin St Cleve, the 20-year old...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 1998-10-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Oxford World's Classics: Two on a Tower
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Published in 1882, his ninth novel, Two on a Tower is Hardy's most complete and daring treatment of the theme of love between characters of different classes and ages. Viviette, the married lady of the manor, is nine years older than Swithin St Cleve, the 20-year old...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 1998-10-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Under the Greenwood Tree
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The arrival of two newcomers in the quiet village of Mellstock arouses a bitter feud and leaves a convoluted love affair in its wake. While the Reverend Maybold creates a furore among the village's musicians with his decision to abolish the church's traditional 'string...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1998-05-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Woodlanders
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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 captivated by Dr Edred Fitzpiers, a...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1998-02-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Jude the Obscure
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'Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul?' Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but he is rebuffed, and trapped in a loveless marriage. He falls in love with his...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 1985-09-19

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Télécharger le livre :  A Changed Man and Other Tales
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The person who, next to the actors themselves, chanced to know most of their story, lived just below 'Top o' Town' (as the spot was called) in an old substantially-built house, distinguished among its neighbours by having an oriel window on the first floor, whence could...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Far From the Madding Crowd
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In reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of Far from the Madding Crowd as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word Wessex from the pages of early English history, and give it...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

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