Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: library, classics, modern, woman, urbervilles, tess
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2001-02-13
List price: $9.00
ISBN-10: 0375756795
ISBN-13: 9780375756795

Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d’Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy’s ’bestseller,’ and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men?Alec d’Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who seduces her in a lonely wood, and Angel Clare, her provincial, moralistic, and unforgiving husband?Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act. ’Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: tower
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0554376040
ISBN-13: 9780554376042

"Two On A Tower" (1882) is a tale of star-crossed love in which Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers against the background of the stellar universe. The unhappily married Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with Swithin St. Cleeve, an astronomer who is ten years her junior. Her husband’s death leaves the lovers free to marry, but the discovery of a legacy forces them apart. This is Hardy’s most complete treatment of the theme of love across the class and age divide and the fullest expression of his fascination with science and

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Dodo Pre
Keywords: press, dodo, ironies, little, life
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2007-04-20
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1406523275
ISBN-13: 9781406523270

1894 short story collection, by the English novelist, short story writer, and poet who was awarded the Order of Merit in 1910.

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: tree, greenwood
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 1420929607
ISBN-13: 9781420929607

"Under the Greenwood Tree" is the 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 one of Thomas Hardy’s most gentle and pastoral novels.

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Dover Publicatio
Keywords: editions, thrift, dover, urbervilles, tess
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-06-14
List price: $3.50
ISBN-10: 0486415899
ISBN-13: 9780486415895

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.Book DescriptionCambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. Tess of

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: dames, noble, group
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2009-10-02
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1115622463
ISBN-13: 9781115622462

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: urbervilles, tess
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1420928538
ISBN-13: 9781420928532

Thomas Hardy’s second to last novel, "Tess of the d’Urbervilles" is the story of Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield. The plot of the novel is set in motion when a local parson mentions that the Durbeyfields are actually related to the noble family the d’Urbervilles. Trying to capitalize on this knowledge the Durbeyfields send a reluctant Tess to work at the d’Urbervilles estate. There the tragic fate of Tess ensues. "Tess of the d’Urbervilles" challenged the sexual mores of the time and because of this was not well received when it was first published. The novel however ha