Thomas Hardy
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English
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First published anonymously in 1872, "Under the Greenwood Tree" is Thomas Hardy's story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new school mistress, Fancy Day. A pleasant romantic tale set in the Victorian era, "Under the Greenwood Tree" is the first of Hardy's "Wessex" novels and is one of his most gentle and pastoral stories. Dick falls in love with the beautiful and talented Fancy the moment he meets...
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English
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Thomas Hardy's first masterpiece, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a scene of such heartlessness and cruelty that it still shocks readers today. A poor workman named Michael Henchard, in a fit of drunken rage, sells his wife and baby daughter to a stranger at a country fair. Stricken with remorse, Henchard forswears alcohol and works hard to become a prosperous businessman and the respected mayor of Casterbridge. But he cannot erase his past....
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Modern Library college editions volume T46
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English
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A ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy's 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural lower class for a frank treatment of sexuality and religion. Then and now, his sympathetic portrait of a victim of Victorian hypocrisy offers compelling reading.
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1999
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xlii, 251 p. : map ; 19 cm.
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English
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A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters. The following stories are featured in this collection: The Son's Veto, For Conscience' Sake, A Tragedy of Two Ambitions, On the Western Circuit, To Please his Wife, The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion, A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four, The Fiddler of the Reels.
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Wordsworth Classics
Pub. Date
c1994
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146 p. ; 20 cm.
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English
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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 personages, ways, and customs which were common among such orchestral bodies in the villages of the time.
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Penguin
Pub. Date
1999
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xxxix, 295 p. : map ; 20 cm.
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English
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"Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. The tower in question is a monument converted into an astronomical observatory where together the lovers 'sweep the heavens'." "Science and romance are destined to collide, however, as work, ambition and the pressures of the outside world intrude upon the pair. In what Sally Shuttleworth...
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Palgrave
Pub. Date
2001
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xxxvi, 1003 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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English
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"Thomas Hardy's first love was always poetry. It was not until 1898, when he was fifty-eight years old, having already established his reputation with fourteen novels and over forty short stories, that his first book of poetry, Wessex Poems, was published. For the final thirty years of his life he abandoned fiction and devoted himself entirely to poetry. It is a tribute to his remarkable powers of creativity that he is now not only regarded as one...
16) Two Wessex tales
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The Four Seas
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[c1919]
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78 p. 16 cm.
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English
17) The return of the native: by Thomas Hardy, illustrated with wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker
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The Heritage press
Pub. Date
[c1942]
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xiii, 416 p., 1 l. incl. front., illus. 23 cm.
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English
