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Two on a Tower

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A young astronomer works from a column on a hill; the lady of the manor, ten years older and married to an absent husband, climbs it to see the stars. Hardy set out to make the emotions of two people small against the interstellar distances, and the Bishop of Wakefield thought it immoral. It is the least read of his Wessex novels and the tenderest. ... Read more

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A young astronomer works from a column on a hill; the lady of the manor, ten years older and married to an absent husband, climbs it to see the stars. Hardy set out to make the emotions of two people small against the interstellar distances, and the Bishop of Wakefield thought it immoral. It is the least read of his Wessex novels and the tenderest.
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Desperate Remedies

by Thomas Hardy ...

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A young woman with no money takes a post as a lady's maid to a wealthy spinster, and finds that the household's secrets involve the architect she once loved. Hardy published it anonymously at thirty-one, after paying his own guarantee against loss, and wrote it to a publisher's brief: give us a plot with mystery in it. The Wessex he would spend his life mapping is already visible underneath the ... Read more

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A young woman with no money takes a post as a lady's maid to a wealthy spinster, and finds that the household's secrets involve the architect she once loved. Hardy published it anonymously at thirty-one, after paying his own guarantee against loss, and wrote it to a publisher's brief: give us a plot with mystery in it. The Wessex he would spend his life mapping is already visible underneath the
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Wessex Tales

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The Wessex short stories: the hangman who comes to supper and does not say what he does; the three strangers; a wife who takes her husband's arm to a dead man's hand for a cure; the Trumpet-Major's Melancholy Hussar deserting for love. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; these came from what he was told as a boy by people who had seen it, and the withered arm is not a metaphor. ... Read more

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The Wessex short stories: the hangman who comes to supper and does not say what he does; the three strangers; a wife who takes her husband's arm to a dead man's hand for a cure; the Trumpet-Major's Melancholy Hussar deserting for love. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; these came from what he was told as a boy by people who had seen it, and the withered arm is not a metaphor.
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A Laodicean

A Story of To-Day

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Literary Classics
The daughter of a railway millionaire buys a Norman castle and cannot decide anything — church or chapel, one suitor or the other — while a young architect restores her battlements and a photographer forges a picture. Hardy trained as an architect and dictated much of this from bed during a near-fatal illness; it is his novel about the new money meeting the old stones, and about a woman who is ... Read more

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The daughter of a railway millionaire buys a Norman castle and cannot decide anything — church or chapel, one suitor or the other — while a young architect restores her battlements and a photographer forges a picture. Hardy trained as an architect and dictated much of this from bed during a near-fatal illness; it is his novel about the new money meeting the old stones, and about a woman who is
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The Hand of Ethelberta

A Comedy in Chapters

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A butler's daughter has published a book of verse, married a rich man's son, been widowed at twenty-one, and now goes about London society as a lady while her father waits at table and her sisters are in service — and four men want to marry her. Hardy called it a comedy and his readers, who wanted another Far from the Madding Crowd, did not forgive him; it is his one novel about class as a ... Read more

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A butler's daughter has published a book of verse, married a rich man's son, been widowed at twenty-one, and now goes about London society as a lady while her father waits at table and her sisters are in service — and four men want to marry her. Hardy called it a comedy and his readers, who wanted another Far from the Madding Crowd, did not forgive him; it is his one novel about class as a
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Life's Little Ironies

A Set of Tales with Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Literary Classics
The stories where Wessex stops being pastoral: a schoolmaster's wife who cannot forgive her son's face; a man who exchanges his child; a tranter's tale told on a carrier's van; the son who is ashamed of his mother at Oxford. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; these 1894 tales are his coldest, and the irony of the title is not gentle — the ordinary arrangements of respectable life ... Read more

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The stories where Wessex stops being pastoral: a schoolmaster's wife who cannot forgive her son's face; a man who exchanges his child; a tranter's tale told on a carrier's van; the son who is ashamed of his mother at Oxford. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; these 1894 tales are his coldest, and the irony of the title is not gentle — the ordinary arrangements of respectable life
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The Mayor of Casterbridge

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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a masterwork of emotional complexity, heartbreak, and redemption by celebrated English author Thomas Hardy.Drunk and outraged, Michael Henchard auctions off his own wife and daughter for five guineas. The following morning, he searches for his family to no avail and, with the clarity of sobriety, swears off liquor for the next 21 years. In that time, he becomes ... Read more

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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a masterwork of emotional complexity, heartbreak, and redemption by celebrated English author Thomas Hardy.Drunk and outraged, Michael Henchard auctions off his own wife and daughter for five guineas. The following morning, he searches for his family to no avail and, with the clarity of sobriety, swears off liquor for the next 21 years. In that time, he becomes
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The Mayor of Casterbridge

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by Thomas Hardy ...

On the road to Weydon-Priors, a weary young family moves through Hardy's stark rural world in silence: Michael Henchard, his wife Susan, and their small child, Elizabeth-Jane. The dust on their clothes, his brooding self-absorption, and her patient burden-bearing immediately suggest a marriage strained by hardship and emotional poverty. When they reach the fair, the bustling, half-finished market ... Read more

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On the road to Weydon-Priors, a weary young family moves through Hardy's stark rural world in silence: Michael Henchard, his wife Susan, and their small child, Elizabeth-Jane. The dust on their clothes, his brooding self-absorption, and her patient burden-bearing immediately suggest a marriage strained by hardship and emotional poverty. When they reach the fair, the bustling, half-finished market
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy ...

Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d’Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec d’Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies ... Read more

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Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d’Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec d’Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies
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The Woodlanders

by Thomas Hardy ...

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In a Dorset hamlet where everyone lives by the trees, a timber merchant educates his daughter above her station and marries her to a doctor who despises the place. Around them: a man who plants saplings and says nothing, a lady in the big house, a barber after a woman's hair. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; he said later this was the novel of his he liked best as a story, and ... Read more

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In a Dorset hamlet where everyone lives by the trees, a timber merchant educates his daughter above her station and marries her to a doctor who despises the place. Around them: a man who plants saplings and says nothing, a lady in the big house, a barber after a woman's hair. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; he said later this was the novel of his he liked best as a story, and
... Read more

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A Pair of Blue Eyes

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Literary Classics
A young architect is sent to a remote Cornish parish to survey a church tower and falls in love with the rector's daughter; so, later, does the London critic who reviews his work. Hardy had been that architect, restoring churches for a living, and he set the novel on the cliffs he knew — where he also invented the cliffhanger, quite literally, in the most famous chapter. ... Read more

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A young architect is sent to a remote Cornish parish to survey a church tower and falls in love with the rector's daughter; so, later, does the London critic who reviews his work. Hardy had been that architect, restoring churches for a living, and he set the novel on the cliffs he knew — where he also invented the cliffhanger, quite literally, in the most famous chapter.
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The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy

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Discover the extraordinary literary legacy of one of England's greatest writers in this comprehensive collection of timeless works. Explore "The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy," a remarkable anthology featuring the novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and other literary writings of one of the most influential figures in English literature. Renowned for his evocative prose, memorable characters, ... Read more

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Discover the extraordinary literary legacy of one of England's greatest writers in this comprehensive collection of timeless works. Explore "The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy," a remarkable anthology featuring the novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and other literary writings of one of the most influential figures in English literature. Renowned for his evocative prose, memorable characters,
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