Télécharger le livre :  The Hand of Ethelberta
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This somewhat frivolous narrative was produced as an interlude between stories of a more sober design, and it was given the sub-title of a comedy to indicate - though not quite accurately - the aim of the performance. A high degree of probability was not attempted in...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Group of Noble Dames
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The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue - the faintest tradition of what went on behind the scenes, and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Desperate Remedies
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The following story, the first published by the author, was written nineteen years ago, at a time when he was feeling his way to a method.The principles observed in its composition are, no doubt, too exclusively those in which mystery, entanglement, surprise, and moral...

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Télécharger le livre :  Wessex Tales
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An apology is perhaps needed for the neglect of contrast which is shown by presenting two consecutive stories of hangmen in such a small collection as the following. But in the neighbourhood of county-towns tales of executions used to form a large proportion of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Laodicean
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The changing of the old order in country manors and mansions may be slow or sudden, may have many issues romantic or otherwise, its romantic issues being not necessarily restricted to a change back to the original order; though this admissible instance appears to have...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
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It was half-past four o'clock (by the testimony of the land-surveyor, my authority for the particulars of this story, a gentleman with the faintest curve of humour on his lips); it was half-past four o'clock on a May morning in the eighteen forties. A dense white fog...

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Télécharger le livre :  Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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I On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him...

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Télécharger le livre :  Two on a Tower
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This slightly-built romance was the outcome of a wish to set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe, and to impart to readers the sentiment that of these contrasting magnitudes the smaller might be the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Under the Greenwood Tree
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This story of the Mellstock Quire and its old established west-gallery musicians, with some supplementary descriptions of similar officials in Two on a Tower, A Few Crusted Characters, and other places, is intended to be a fairly true picture, at first hand, of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Well-Beloved
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The peninsula carved by Time out of a single stone, whereon most of the following scenes are laid, has been for centuries immemorial the home of a curious and well-nigh distinct people, cherishing strange beliefs and singular customs, now for the most part obsolescent. ...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Woodlanders
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The rambler who, for old association or other reasons, should trace the forsaken coach-road running almost in a meridional line from Bristol to the south shore of England, would find himself during the latter half of his journey in the vicinity of some extensive...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Pair of Blue Eyes
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The following chapters were written at a time when the craze for indiscriminate church-restoration had just reached the remotest nooks of western England, where the wild and tragic features of the coast had long combined in perfect harmony with the crude Gothic Art of...

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