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Two On A Tower 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 eight years her junior. Her husbands death leaves the lovers free to marry, but the discovery of a legacy forces them apart. This is Hardys most complete treatment of the theme of love across the class and age divide and the fullest expression of his fascination with science and astronomy.

Relanzada a la popularidad por su presencia y su papel en la exitosa serie “Cincuenta sombras de Grey”, “Tess, la de los d’Urberville” retrata la vida rural del sur de Inglaterra a través de la figur

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 and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in Wessex, Hardy''s novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled "A Story of a Man of Character", Hardy''s powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.

Two on a Tower (1882) is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy,[1] classified by him as a romance and fantasy and now regarded as one of his minor works. The book is one of Hardys Wessex novels, set in a parallel version of late Victorian Dorset.

"The Three Strangers" is a short story by Thomas Hardy from 1883.The story is a pastoral history told by an omniscient narrator more than 50 years after the event. The sheep-stealer is a kind of folk hero who stole to survive and escaped by outsmarting his hangman.

Thomas Hardy, Alan Manford (Editor), Tim Dolin (Introduction by)'Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.' Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began the book during the first days of his courtship of his first wife Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends become rivals, and Elfride faces an agonizing choice. Written at a crucial time in Hardy's life, A Pair of Blue Eyes expresses more directly than any of his novels the events and social forces that made him the writer he was. Elfride's dilemma mirrors the difficult decision Hardy himself had to make with this novel: to pursue the profession of architecture, where he was established, or literature, where he had yet to make his name?

El regreso del nativo es la sexta novela publicada de Thomas Hardy. Apareció por vez primera en la revista Belgravia, una publicación conocida por su sensacionalismo, y fue presentada en doce mensualidades desde enero hasta diciembre de 1878.

Una delle caratteristiche principali dellarte narrativa di Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) e quella di ridurre i piu ardui problemi dello spirito a poche idee forti ed elementari. I cinque racconti compresi in questa raccolta, La tragedia di due ambizioni, Il veto del figlio, Per sua moglie, LUssaro malinconico e Tradizione dellanno 1804, hanno un unico filo conduttore: lambizione. Ma non vista come impulso positivo per ottenere qualcosa nella vita, piuttosto come un demone distruttivo degli affetti e delle relazioni, che non lascia la presa finche il povero malcapitato non si ritrova da solo di fronte ad unimmane tragedia. Lambizione vista come pulsione che riesce ad evidenziare il contrasto tra la vita ideale desiderata da un uomo e quella reale che gli tocca di vivere.

Retenidos por el mal tiempo en un museo municipal, los miembros del Club de Naturaleza y Arqueología de Wessex deciden entretenerse contando curiosas historias «de hermosas damas, de sus amores y sus

Thomas HardyLove and the erratic heart are at the center of Hardy's "woodland story." Set in the beautiful Blackmoor Vale, The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-to-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of the dashing and dissolute doctor, Edred Fitzpiers. When the mysterious Felice Charmond further complicates the romantic entanglements, marital choice and class mobility become inextricably linked. Hardy's powerful novel depicts individuals in thrall to desire and the natural law that motivates them. This is the only critical edition of the novel, which was Hardy's own favorite "as a story," that is based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and incorporates later revisions. The new introduction by Penny Boumelha considers the novel in the context of Hardy's career, the characters' relationships with one another, the role of destiny and individual choice, narrative perspective, and the community. This edition also contains a new and up-to-date bibliography and a new chronology.

Maravillosa edición de Grandes Clásicos Literatura Random House de esta novela sobre la naturaleza del amor y la fatalidad del deseo, por uno de los novelistas ingleses más importantes de finales del siglo XIX. "Habia algo en la muchacha que no se podia pasar por alto: sus ojos. Eran como una sublimacion de su persona; no era necesario buscar mas alla: en los ojos estaba toda ella." Unos ojos azules se desarrolla en torno a la consideracion -a menudo falsa- que los hombres tienen de las mujeres. Elfride, una bella joven de ojos azules, es la hija del rector de Endelstow, un remoto encl ave de Cornualles. Elfride pronto se vera atrapada entre dos hombres, el joven arquitecto Stephen Smith y un viejo hombre de letras, Henry Knight, que arruinaran su amistad por la chica. A lo largo de la novela surgen asuntos como las relaciones sentimentales entre clases sociales diferentes, la naturaleza del amor o la fatalidad del deseo. Esta obra, considerada una de las mas interesantes y autobiograficas del autor, ha sido vertida al castellano por la virtuosa mano de Damia Alou. Incluye, ademas, una introduccion escrita por el propio traductor.

Los relatos del gran novelista y poeta inglés Thomas Hardy recogen muchos de los temas y las inquietudes de sus mejores novelas, como Tess, la de los d’Urbervilles o Lejos del mundanal ruido, y const

Classic / British English (Available May 2008) Gabriel Oak is an honest, hard-working young farmer, who falls in love with the beautiful and independent Bathsheba Everdene. After a tragic accident, Gabriel loses his farm. Bathsheba, on the other hand, becomes rich. Is there any hope for Gabriel?

Classic / British English (Available May 2008) Michael 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?

A complete and unabridged reading of Thomas Hardys classic novel read by Alan Rickman. Clym Yeobright returns home, happy to escape from materialistic Paris. He meets and marries the passionate beauty Eustacia Vye, who mistakenly sees in Clym the possibility of liberation from the tedium of Egdon Heath. Her ensuing disillusionment and violent argument with her mother-in-law drive her to attempt escape with her old lover Damon Wildeve.

"The Hand of Ethelberta" (1876) was described by Hardy as "A Comedy in Chapters." It bears out fairly well the claims of its sub-title. The heroine, Ethelberta, is a butlers daughter, who, having been educated above her station, marries a young, wealthy, and well-born husband and is soon left a fashionable widow. She now essays the difficult role of moving in polite society while still preserving secret relations with her family. Her sister becomes her maid, her brother her footman, and once she is actually waited on at a dinner party by her father, the butler. Naturally such a plot furnishes Mr. Hardy with much opportunity for delicate satire on fashionable society as well as for indulging in his accustomed humor. Ethelberta publishes poems, recites her own stories, loves a poor gentleman, is wooed by several eligible suitors, and finally marries a worn-out peer. If it were not that she gets the upper hand of her old husband and is enabled to lift up and support her family the end of the story would be tragic, rather than comic; but, viewed as a whole, it is an amusing comedy which deserves more popularity than it seems to have had. Certainly Mr. Hardy has drawn few more interesting characters than his "squirrel haired" Ethelberta.