«El alcalde de Casterbridge» (1886) es una de las novelas de madurez de Thomas Hardy y, junto con «Jude el oscuro», una de las que cimentan su histórica fama de novelista trágico. «El alcalde de Cast
Under the Greenwood Tree appears to be pastoral romance at its most sunlit and good humoured, and has been called the 'most nearly flawless of Hardy's novels'. Yet, as Tim Dolin shows in his Introduction, there is a darker side to this paradise, seen particularly in the conflicts arising over anachronistic customs and rituals, and the ambiguities surrounding Fancy's forthcoming marriage. For Hardy, who drew out the associations with his own childhood in later revisions, the novel came to epitomize a past that had been forever lost to him and to England.
Esta es la historia de un doble fracaso: el de un ideal de pareja fuera del derecho de familia. Novela fuerte y dura que, pese a la densidad de su entramado conceptual, entra de lleno en el modelo de relato realista. En el momento de su publicación en 1895 fue la primera novela que expuso claramente y sin tapujos la cuestión de las relaciones sexuales como un problema filosófico y vital abierto al debate público, cuestión que causó un gran escándalo y Thomas Hardy fue duramente atacado.
Now a major motion picture! The tale of a passionate, independent woman and her three suitors, Far from the Madding Crowd tells the story of Bathsheba Everdene and her relationships with the devoted Gabriel Oak, the dashing Sergeant Troy, and the reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr. Boldwood. Through her wayward nature and a winding path of events propelled by Thomas Hardy's recurring feminist themes, Bathsheba is led to tragedy and, finally, true love.Written in 1874, Far from the Madding Crowd was Hardy's first masterpiece. Alive with lush, idyllic settings that exert profound influences on the novel's characters, it is an unforgettable narrative of both beauty and devastation. Its portrait of rural life, and compelling examination of social conventions, has made it one of English literature's greatest works.
A new selection of Hardy's love poems. Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet.
Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have left earlier marriages. Ironically, when tragedy tests their union it is Sue, the modern emancipated woman, who proves unequal to the challenge. Hardy's fearless exploration of sexual and social relationships and his prophetic critique of marriage scandalised the late Victorian establishment and marked the end of his career as a novelist.
The Trumpet-Major, set against the background of the Napoleonic wars, is one of Hardy's most fascinating stories of love and desire. Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill owned by Miller Loveday, has three suitors: the squire's son Festus and the miller's two sons, Robert and John. As the Wessex village prepares for possible invasion by Napoleon's fleet, Anne finds her destiny increasingly tangled up with the events of history. For Robert is a sailor while John is a soldier both with equal commitments to their country and their love for Anne. Lyrical and light-hearted in tone, yet shot through with Hardy's characteristic irony, The Trumpet-Major is one of Hardy's most underrated and unpredictable works. In her introduction to this new edition, Linda Shires brilliantly demonstrates how the novelist defies the reader's expectations by his parallel use of literary modes which call each other into question: comedy, romance and history.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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.
Jude Fawley's ambitions to go to university are thwarted by class prejudice and his entrapment in a loveless marriage. His doomed love affair with his unconventional cousin has tragic consequences. Hardy's last, and most controversial novel, this revised edition has the first truly critical text, a new chronology and bibliography, and substantially revised notes.
La jove Bathsheba Everdene hereta una enorme finca rural i decideix fer-se'n càrrec ella mateixa, sense cedir-ne el control a cap home. Bonica com és, ràpidament li surten pretendents: Gabriel Oak,
El autor nos presenta una historia narrativa de la psicología que incluye los contextos filosóficos, políticos y sociales que han dado forma a la psicología y que, a su vez se han visto influidos por esta disciplina. Además, incorpora, acontecimientos tan recientes como la fundación de la American Psychological Society. Completa la obra un capítulo dedicado íntegramente a la filosofía de la ciencia, la historiografía y sus relaciones con la psicología. Incluye asimismo un detallado esquema temporal que facilita la comprensión de los avances psicológicos dentro de su contexto histórico.
En la seva obra lírica Hardy parla dun passat rural que sesvaneix i de les dificultats del present, i ho fa des dun punt de vista desinhibit i modern, lluny del romanticisme fins aleshores imperan
