Thomas Hardy Bücher

Man kann sich kaum vorstellen, daß der ehrwürdige "Bürgermeister von Casterbridge" einst in trunkenem Zustand Frau und Tochter auf einem Jahrmarkt verkaufte. Doch sein Spiel mit dem Schicksal bleibt nicht ohne Folgen. Thomas Hardys Schilderungen des Aufstiegs und Falls eines mächtigen Mannes gehört zu den großen Prosatragödien des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) beschreibt in seinen spannungsgeladenen Erzählungen das Schicksal leidenschaftlicher Menschen, die Glück und Harmonie verwehrt bleiben. Die Sammlung umfasst Geschichten wie „Die drei Fremden“ und „Was der Schäfer sah“, die das Ringen mit einem übermächtigen Schicksal thematisieren.

Der Steinmetz Juda Fawley und seine Kusine Sue Bridehead lieben sich, doch Juda ist auf dem Papier der Gatte einer Frau, die ihn kurz nach der Hochzeit verlassen hat. Sue gibt den Werbungen des alternden Lehreres Phillotson nach und entdeckt zu spät, dass die Ehe mit dem ungeliebten Mann eine körperliche und seelische Qual für sie ist...

Whoever had perceived the yeoman standing on Squire Everard's lawn in the dusk of that October evening fifty years ago, might have said at first sight that he was loitering there from idle curiosity. For a large five-light window of the manor-house in front of him was unshuttered and uncurtained, so that the illuminated room within could be scanned almost to its four corners. Obviously nobody was ever expected to be in this part of the grounds after nightfall. The apartment thus swept by an eye from without was occupied by two persons; they were sitting over dessert, the tablecloth having been removed in the old-fashioned way. The fruits were local, consisting of apples, pears, nuts, and such other products of the summer as might be presumed to grow on the estate. There was strong ale and rum on the table, and but little wine. Moreover, the appointments of the dining-room were simple and homely even for the date, betokening a countrified household of the smaller gentry, without much wealth or ambition-formerly a numerous class, but now in great part ousted by the territorial landlords.

Thomas Hardys früher Roman spielt während der Napoleonischen Kriege und erzählt von drei jungen Männern, die um die schöne Anne Garland werben. Während der Krieg das ländliche Idyll bedroht, müssen die Brüder John und Robert Loveday sowie ein dritter Verehrer um Annes Herz kämpfen, wobei der Krieg ihre Schicksale bestimmt.

Die vierte Übersetzung von Thomas Hardys "Tess von den D'Urbervilles" durch Barbara Scholz zielt darauf ab, die zahlreichen, oft unverständlichen Fremdwörter in eine sinnvolle deutsche Sprache zu übertragen. Diese neue Übersetzung ermöglicht eine bessere Lesbarkeit und ein tieferes Verständnis des Werkes, das bisher in drei unzureichenden Übersetzungen vorlag.

Der Kampf zwischen Fleisch und Geist kann tödlich enden„, sagt der englische Dichter Thomas Hardy, und kaum ein anderer Roman führt das so schonungslos vor Augen wie “Herzen im Aufruhr„: Er erzählt von der innigen Begegnung zweier junger Menschen in Südengland am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, ihrer kompromisslosen Liebe zueinander und der zerstörerischen Macht eines grausamen Schicksals. Der Steinmetz Juda Fawley und seine Kusine Sue Bridehead lieben sich, doch Juda ist auf dem Papier der Gatte einer Frau, die ihn kuzr nach der Hochzeit verlassen hat. Sue gibt den Werbungen des alternden Lehreres Phillotson nach und entdeckt zu spät, dass die Ehe mit dem ungeliebten Mann eine körperliche und seelische Qual für sie ist... “Jude the Obscure„ löste nach seinem Erscheinen 1895 bei Kritikern und Publikum einen Sturm der Entrüstung aus und blieb daher der letzte von Hardys (Hardy, Thomas 1840 - 1928) berühmten “Wessex"-Romanen - und zugleich sein letztes erzählendes Werk überhaupt.

Die schöne Pfarrerstochter Elfride sehnt sich danach, ihr Glück in der Liebe zu finden. Doch ihre beiden Verlobungen scheitern: die erste als unstandesgemäß am Widerstand des Vaters, die zweite an den erstarrten Rollenerwartungen ihres Bräutigams. Dieser psychologisch einfühlsame Entwicklungsroman entlarvt die spätviktorianische Zeit in ihrer Doppelmoral, unter der vor allem Frauen zu leiden haben. Die Neuübersetzung erscheint zum ersten Mal im Taschenbuch.

Als die junge Grace Melbury nach der Schulausbildung heimkehrt aufs Land, ist sie für ihre einstige Liebe, den einfachen Waldarbeiter Giles Winterborne, eine Nummer zu groß. Zudem fühlt sich Grace zu dem feinen Dr. Edred Fitzpiers hingezogen – darin nach Kräften von ihrem Vater unterstützt. Giles beginnt um sie zu kämpfen. Thomas Hardys Roman von 1887, vielgerühmt in seiner englischen Heimat, ist für die deutschen Leser noch zu entdecken. Er schildert eine scheinbar wohlgeordnete kleine Welt, die zwischen leidenschaftlichem Begehren und sozialen Schranken in Aufruhr gerät.

»Wie kommt es nur, daß Frauen schon aus der Ferne sehen können, was ein Mann nicht einmal von nahem sieht.« Herz oder Verstand? Diese Frage bestimmt das Schicksal fünf junger Menschen im südenglischen Egdon Heath. Durch folgenschwere Entscheidungen aus Treuherzigkeit, Wankelmut und Selbstsucht verstricken diese sich immer mehr in einem Netz aus Irrwegen. Freud und Leid scheinen untrennbar miteinander verbunden ... Der Roman erschien 1878 im englischen Original unter dem Titel The Return of the Native. Diese Neuausgabe in attraktiver Sonderausstattung bietet die zeitgemäße Übersetzung von Helga Schulz.

The phrase `life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined by Hardy as the title for this, his third volume of short stories. While the tales and sketches reflect many of the strengths and themes of the great novels, they are powerful works in their own right. Unified by his quintessential irony, strong visual sense, and engaging characters, they deal with the tragic and the humorous, the metaphysical and the magical. The collection displays the whole range of Hardy's art as a writer of fiction, from fantasy to uncompromising realism, and from the loving re-creation of a vanished rural world to the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life.

Der große Schicksalsroman  Durch Zufall erfährt die in ärmlichen Verhältnissen lebende Tess Durbeyfield, dass ihre Familie einem alten normannischen Adelsgeschlecht entstammt. Ihr Entschluss, vermeintliche Verwandte zu besuchen, hat fatale Folgen für die junge Frau: Sie trifft auf die zwei Männer, die den Gang ihres Schicksals unheilvoll lenken. Mit Tess sorgte Thomas Hardy 1891 für Aufsehen. Der Roman zählt zu den großen Klassikern der englischen Literatur. Diese Neuausgabe in attraktiver Sonderausstattung bietet die zeitgemäße Übersetzung von Helga Schulz.

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Vor der unheimlichen Heidelandschaft Südenglands entspinnt sich eine Liebe tragischen Ausgangs: Die leidenschaftliche Eustacia Vye sehnt sich danach, der Einöde zu entfliehen, und träumt von einem Leben in den Städten. Als Clym Yeobright, der sich als Diamantenhändler in Paris niedergelassen hat, in seine Heimat zurückkehrt, um seine Mutter zu besuchen, glaubt Eustacia, endlich einen Ausweg gefunden zu haben. Zwar gelingt es ihr, Clym an sich zu binden, doch dieser hat nicht vor, seine Heimat wieder zu verlassen. Ein Wunsch, der nicht ohne Folgen bleiben wird. Eine stürmische Geschichte aus der Feder des britischen Schriftstellers Thomas Hardy, Autor des Klassikers »Tess von den d'Urbervilles«. – Mit einer kompakten Biographie des Autors.

Jude Fawley, Steinmetz, von seiner Frau verlassen, trifft in Christminster seine verheiratete Cousine Sue Bridehead. Sie wird die Leidenschaft seines Lebens. Für die Gesellschaft bleiben sie durch ihre „wilde Ehe“ geächtet. Doch als Judes Frau Arabella den gemeinsamen Sohn aus Australien schickt und Jude und Sue ihn mit den eigenen Kindern aufziehen wollen, beginnt eine Tragödie auf Leben und Tod. Thomas Hardys größtes Werk weckte im England des 19. Jahrhunderts einen solchen Entrüstungssturm, dass er nie wieder einen Roman schrieb. Eine der dramatischsten, leidenschaftlichsten Liebesgeschichten in der englischen Literatur – in der packenden Neuübersetzung von Alexander Pechmann.

Es handelt sich hier erst um die zweite zweisprachige Ausgabe der sogenannten Emma-Gedichte englisch und deutsch. Auch die erste, von Rüdiger Görner, erschien in der EDITION SIGNAThUR. Günter Plessow, der Nachdichter, fügte den Poems 1912-13 Anmerkungen, Reflexionen und Maximen bei.

Zu den POEMS 1912-13 gehören 21 zum Teil längere Gedichte. Die meisten entstanden nach dem Tod der Ehefrau Emma geb. Gifford im November 1912. In diesen Texten schildert Hardy sein Leben und Erleben mit der Abgeschiedenen; diese sogenannten Emma-Gedichte erhalten das Andenken an die verstorbene Gattin.

Hardys stimmungsvollster Roman, der das ländliche Leben Südenglands in lyrischen Naturschilderungen beschwört. Eins mit seiner Welt weiß sich der Held des Romans, der Farmer Gabriel Oak; nur so kann er die Enttäuschungen und die Demütigungen von seiten seiner Angebeteten Bathsheba Everdene verwinden. Bathsheba, egoistisch und launenhaft, wählt mit untrüglichem Gespür immer wieder den falschen Mann, bis sie nach bitteren Erfahrungen erkennt, daß sie zu Oak gehört. Hinter der mühsam gekitteten Idylle drohen freilich die Schatten der Auflösung. Ganz im Stil des traditionellen Erzählens legt Hardy einen Hauch des Archaischen über seinen ländlichen Schauplatz und seine einfachen Figuren. Völlig unprätentiös und unaffektiert vermag er gerade den modernen Leser in seinen Bann zu schlagen, weil unter der Schlichtheit seiner heilen Welt eine tiefe Trauer und ein unabweisbarer Skeptizismus fühlbar werden. »The sad man sighed his fantasies« - diese Gedichtzeile von Hardy könnte als Motto über seinem Werk, im besonderen aber über ›Am grünen Rand der Welt‹ stehen. Die Spannung zwischen Altem und Neuem, pastoraler Welt und aufkommendem Industriezeitalter, zwischen der Klage um den Verlust und dem eigensinnigen Festhalten an der Utopie berührt auch den heutigen Leser unmittelbar. 

In Hardys letztem Roman, Jude the Obscure, wird die Geschichte des Steinmetzen Jude Fawley erzählt, der ein Träumer ist und dessen Tragödie in unerfüllten Zielen besteht. Zusammen mit seiner faszinierenden Cousine Sue Bridehead, der letzten und außergewöhnlichsten von Hardys Heldinnen, stellt Jude sich der Welt und entdeckt tragischerweise deren brutale Gleichgültigkeit. Der Roman thematisiert offen Sexualität und kritisiert die Institutionen von Ehe, Bildung und Religion. Gleichzeitig ist er ein tief moralisches Werk und bietet eine kraftvolle Ausdrucksform von Hardys Philosophie sowie eine tiefgreifende Erkundung der grundlegenden Einsamkeit des Menschen. Jude the Obscure ist ein großes und schönes Buch, das die Leser mit seiner tiefen emotionalen Resonanz und seinem eindringlichen Stil berührt.

The volume includes five of Hardy's best-loved novels, Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Hardy's own favourite The Woodlanders.These much loved novels demonstrate the full range and power of Hardy's greatest fiction, including tragic heroes and heroines such as Michael Henchard and Tess, the bittersweet romance of Bathsheba and her lovers, and Hardy's matchless evocation of the shifting patterns of English rural life.

Five novels are augmented by a biographical introduction and enhanced with contemporary photographs of the Wessex landscape

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This work comprises a collection of the poetic works of Thomas Hardy. Hardy's poetry spanned over 50 years from the last half of the 19th century to the period after World War I, and ranges from pessimistic works to those which were witty and fanciful.

Classic / British EnglishMichael Henchard is a wealthy and respected man, but he has a terrible secret. Twenty years ago, when he was unemployed and penniless, he sold his wife to a sailor. Now she is looking for him again. Why? And what will happen when she finds him?

The quintessential Victorian novelist of unforgettable characters caught in their inescapable with unfailing honesty and lyrical writing, Thomas Hardy captured his heroes' intimate relationship with the natural and social environment. Here are three of his finest works, presented in their entirety. Tess of the Durbervilles tells the tragic tale of a poor young girl's coming of age and her traumatic relationships with two the wealthy and cold Alec D'Urberville and the beautiful, but unforgiving Angel Clare. Michael Henchard, the title character of The Mayor of Casterbridge , reaches the pinnacles of power-only to lose everything through folly and bad luck. Set in Hardy's beloved Wessex, and always attentive to the struggles of everyday life in the farming community, Far From the Madding Crowd centers on Bathsheba Everdene and the men who love her.

STAGE 3 - 1000 headwords | B1 | Preliminary | Classic A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented” The story, set in a poor rural area of England in the 19th century, centres around Tess Durbeyfield, a sweet, innocent, country girl who is a victim of fate and her own beauty. When her lazy father finds out that his ancestors were the noble d’Urberville family, he dreams of winning back this glory for his own family. Tess, 16 years old at the start of the story and the eldest of seven children, is pushed by her parents to go and work for Alec d’Urberville who will change Tess’s life in a dramatic way. In the middle of the chaos caused by Alec d’Urberville, Tess meets Angel Clare. Will he love her forever as he promises, without judging her for her past? Or will Alec d’Urberville become her master? Read and find out. Syllabus Grammar and structures Present simple and continuous, past simple and continuous, present and past perfect simple. Future with go-ing to and will. Passive forms. Modal verbs. Verb + infinitive, verb + ing. Phrasal verbs. First and second condi- tional. Comparatives and superlatives. In this Reader you will find: Information about Thomas Hardy and his times | Focus on section about Stonehenge | Glossary of difficult words | Comprehension and extension activities including B1 Preliminary style activities Tags Classic literature | Relationships | Fate | Judgement

With unfailing honesty and lyrical writing, Thomas Hardy captured his heroes' intimate relationship with the natural and social environment. Here are three of his finest works, uncut. "Tess of the Durbervilles" tells the tragic tale of a poor girl's coming of age and traumatic relationships with two men. Michael Henchard, in "The Mayor of Casterbridge," reaches the pinnacles of power-only to lose everything. Set in Hardy's beloved Wessex, "Far From the Madding Crowd" centers on Bathsheba Everdene and the men who love her.

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions.

Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet. This work is a selection of Hardy's love poems.

This award-winning graded readers series is full of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers.

List of Illustrations Introduction; J.Gibson Domicilium Wessex Poems and Other Verses Poems of the Past and the Present Poems of Pilgrimage Miscellaneous Poems Imitations, etc. Retrospect Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses More Love Lyrics A Set of Country Songs Pieces Occasional and Various Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries Poems of 1912-13 Miscellaneous Pieces Satires of Circumstance Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses Poems of War and Patriotism Finale Late Lyrics and Earlier Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres Previous Uncollected Poems Notes Index of Titles Index of First Lines schovat popis

FIRST EDITION. 1985 Select Editions oblong hardcover, British import. Thomas Hardy. “The Darkling Thrush” is a poem by the English poet and novelist Thomas Hardy. The poem describes a desolate world, which the poem’s speaker takes as cause for despair and hopelessness. However, a bird (the “thrush”) bursts onto the scene, singing a beautiful and hopeful song—so hopeful that the speaker wonders whether the bird knows something that the speaker doesn’t. -

A tale of mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity in which Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer, Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's steward Manston.

Recommended for adult literacy - intermediate level.

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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Thomas Hardy saw himself, first and foremost, as a poet and he composed poetry throughout his prolific and acclaimed novel-writing years. In 1896, dismayed by the criticism he received on publication of Jude the Obscure, he astonished his worldwide readership by announcing that he would write no more novels. From 1898, until his death in 1928, Hardy published eight volumes of poetry - beginning with Wessex Poems and Other Verses - and this entirely new selection gives us the best from each volume. Now regarded as a bridge between the Victorian era and Modernism, his poetry is lyrical and soul-searching with subjects ranging from the poignant grief at the death of his wife to his experiences of war. Edited and introduced by Ned Halley.

Thomas Hardy's "Poetical Matter" notebook, the last published from a select group of his surviving notebooks, has been meticulously edited with comprehensive scholarly annotation. This notebook includes numerous notes copied from old pocket-books that were later destroyed, allowing it to reflect all periods of Hardy's life. It is particularly valuable for enhancing biographical knowledge of his final years and preserving intimate records, such as his vivid memories of childhood in Bockhampton and his impressions of a woman seen during a 1868 pleasure steamer trip. Its uniqueness lies in its role as a late working notebook focused specifically on verse. Florence Hardy, his widow, noted his late-life creative surge, feeling he could write indefinitely. "Poetical Matter" serves as direct evidence of his active engagement with poetry, showcasing his thoughts on new poems up until shortly before his death at eighty-seven. The notebook is rich with new ideas for poems and sequences, illustrating Hardy's creative process as he worked through initial concepts, gathered notes, tentative prose, verse fragments, metrical schemes, and rhyme patterns, ultimately leading to the drafts from which completed poems would emerge.

An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here.Thomas Hardy's short stories reveal a literary persona, a creative intelligence and an imaginative vision uniquely and unmistakably his own. Those contained within this volume are among his finest and most representative and include The Withered Arm, one of his best known and most gripping; Barbara of the House of Grebe, said by T. S. Eliot to portray 'a world of pure evil'; The Son's Veto, regarded by Hardy as his best story; and, of course, The Distracted Preacher, possibly the most flawless of all. Like the novels, the short stories reveal Hardy's preoccupation with affairs of the heart, with love requited and frustrated, fulfilled or doomed. They contain many of his most powerful portraits of women; they are streaked with the grotesque, the macabre and bizarre; and they are permeated by that atmosphere, narrative power, and vivid sense of place and its intimate relation to character which are the essentials of Hardy's genius.

Selected Short Stories: Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 near Dorchester in that part of England he called Wessex. With stories sometimes from his own imagination and sometimes from local tradition, Hardy's work, like Dickens and Trollope, creates a strong sense of mood and location. Hardy hoped to be remembered for his poetry, but ours is not a poetic age. Thus his claim to a new generation of listeners rests on his prose. There are great similarities between his era, a time of challenge, and our own. This collection of short stories shows Hardy at his best and includes: "The Three Strangers," "The Withered Arm," "The Fiddler of the Reels," "Barbara of the House of Grebe" and "The Distracted Preacher."

In addition to his great "Wessex Novels," Thomas Hardy wrote Wessex Tales (1896), a collection of six stories written in the 1880s and 1890s that, for the most part, are as bleakly ironic and unforgiving as the darkest of his great novels -- Jude the Obscure. But this great novelist began and ended his writing career as a poet. In-between, he wrote a number of books that many readers find emotionally-wrenching, but which are considered among the classics of 19th Century British literature, including Far from the Madding Crowd, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Readers will experience Hardy's uncompromising, unsentimental realism in Wessex Tales, and for those seeking a taste of the Dorset poet and novelist, they represent an ideal start.

"When Jack and Joan Durbeyfield learn that their ancestors were the d'Urbervilles - a rich and well-known family - they hope it will make their lives better. They send their eldest daughter, Tess, to introduce herself to some 'relatives'. There, Tess meets Alec d'Urberville, who immediately notices her beauty. The terrible event that follows changes her life forever."--Publisher

The Bookworms series offers six graded stages provide more than 130 stories at different levels of ability. The lower levels feature a wide choice of original stories, while the higher levels feature adaptations of well-known works originally published for native speakers. There are titles to suit all tastes: fantasy and horror; thriller and adventure; classics; true stories; crime and mystery; human interest.

Includes a selection of poems by Robert Browning, Emily Bronte, Matthew Arnold, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, George Eliot, and others.

This selection was the third that Hardy collected together himself for publication as a single volume. It reflects the experiences of a novelist who was at the height of his creative powers. The stories are thematically linked by a concern with the diverse problems of marriage

A POCKET CLASSICS edition of a collection of short stories, all of which reflect Hardy's love of the supernatural. Stories include THE WAITING SUPPER, ALICIA'S DIARY and THE ROMANTIC ADVENTURES OF A MILKMAID. By the author of JUDE THE OBSCURE and THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE.

Paula Power has two suitors: Captain De Stancy, an Army officer with the aristocratic background she yearns for, and George Somerset, an architect who represents the 'new nobility of talent and enterprise.' No elegy for a lost past, the story of Paula's dilemma was meant to be a comic investigation of the 'incongruities that were daily shaping themselves in the world under the great modern fluctuations of classes and creeds.' --From publisher's description

Tells the story of Lady Constantine, who breaks all the rules of decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. Together, in an ancient monument converted into an astronomical observation tower, they create their own private universe.

'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...' After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). Hardy's works available in Penguin Classics are A Laodicean, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Desperate Remedies, Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, Selected Poems, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales, The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories, The Hand of Ethelberta, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and The Well-beloved, The Return of the Native, The Trumpet-Major, The Withered Arm and Other Stories, The Woodlanders, Two on a Tower and Under the Greenwood Tree.

A vivid and authentic re-creation of Hardy's own childhood environment. The happiest of all Hardy's works

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. Wessex Poems was Hardy's first collection of poetry, published after he had turned away from novel writing, disillusioned by the savage reception Jude the Obscure had received. Its publication marked the start of an extraordinary new phase in Hardy's writing career: for the rest of his long life, he would write only poetry. Here are sprightly Dorset ballads, verses set during the Napoleonic Wars, and personal poems reflecting on Hardy's life and loves. Composed throughout Hardy's life and animated by his affection for his beloved Wessex, their publication in 1898 heralded the arrival of a major new poetic voice.

On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd's cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night... In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives of shepherds and hangmen, dukes and teachers. But rich or poor, young or old, they all have the same feelings of fear, hope, love, jealousy...

As the last of Hardy's novels to be published, The Well-Beloved has generated great scholarly interest recently. Partly autobiographical, it tells the story of the sculptor Jocelyn Pierston, whose search for the ideal woman in both Portland and London leads him into courtships with a Portland woman, her daughter and her grand-daughter. This edition is the first to recover Hardy's final revisions to the text.

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was '...the past was yesterday; never, the day after'. And lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood, whose love fills him with '...a fearful sense of exposure', when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba.

A wonderful collection of stories from the beloved novelist and poet.

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A story of entangled love. The gentle John Loveday, the trumpet-major, is in love with Anne Garland but she has two other suitors. Who will she choose?

Love can be heartbreaking As Baptista travels home to marry her parents’ old neighbour, she encounters her lost lover. They elope together, but tragedy strikes unexpectedly on their wedding day and she returns to her parents to do her duty. Will her other, brief love remain a secret?