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"Tess of the D'Urbevilles" is perhaps the best known novel by legendary British author Thomas Hardy.
This heartbreaking story revolves around young Tess, who is hiding a secret past when she marries a young farmer named Angel. She attempts to tell him everything, but he insists that she wait until after they are wed. When Angel learns - on their wedding night - that Tess had been the victim of a sexual assault and lost the resulting child,...
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"The Thomas Hardy Reader - Volume I" is a collection of three of Hardy's most beloved and celebrated books: "Tess of the D'Urbevilles," "The Mayor of Casterbridge" and "The Return of the Native."
Universally acknowledged as one of the greatest novelists in English literary history, these three books represent Thomas Hardy at his best. In these novels, Hardy explores and expounds upon some of his most familiar themes: love, honor, loss, betrayal...
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Lejos del mundanal ruido fue publicada mensualmente en Cornhill Magazinede manera anónima en 1874 y si bien es la cuarta novela de Thomas Hardy, fue la primera obra del autor que alcanzó éxito literario. En ella, Hardy nos sitúa en la región de Wessex, donde vive la joven Bathsheba Everdene, una mujer libre e independiente que se dedica a la administración de la finca que ha heredado de su tío. Sin embargo, la muchacha no es ajena a los dilemas...
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Three novels of love, ambition, and nineteenth-century English society.
This volume includes three of the greatest works by the iconic Victorian novelist.
The Return of the Native: Eustacia Vye yearns to escape the village of Egdon Heath, but her marriage to a well-traveled man doesn't bring the adventure she craves, in this novel that brilliantly evokes the dangerous allure of romantic fantasies.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A young woman struggles...
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Three classics of the Victorian era from the great novelist.
This volume includes three iconic novels by the author known for chronicling nineteenth-century English society.
Far from the Madding Crowd: A tale of love, tragedy, and a woman brave enough to defy convention.
Jude the Obscure: A young stonemason who had aspired to a career in academia finds himself trapped in an unhappy marriage in this novel of passion and heartbreak.
The Mayor of...
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"The Thomas Hardy Reader - Volume II" is a collection of three of Hardy's most beloved and celebrated books: "Far from the Madding Crowd," "Jude the Obscure" and "A Pair of Blue Eyes."
Universally acknowledged as one of the greatest novelists in English literary history, these three books represent Thomas Hardy at his best. In these novels, Hardy explores and expounds upon some of his most familiar themes: love, honor, loss, betrayal and tragic...
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"Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages" by Henry James, Thomas Hardy, George Moore, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Walter Besant. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously...
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"Great Ghost Stories" by Théophile Gautier, Thomas Hardy, Montague Rhodes James, Margaret Oliphant, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Amelia B. Edwards, Fitz-James O'Brien, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Fiona Macleod, Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, James H. Hyslop, Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, H. B. Marryatt. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and...
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Al igual que ocurre con otros volúmenes de la Colección Mejores Cuentos, la presente antología reúne historias de los más destacados cuentistas de Inglaterra. La cantidad de grandes escritores ingleses es vasta, de tal manera que es una tarea muy ardua seleccionar pocos cuentos entre tantos excelentes. Por otro lado, el lector puede tener la máxima certeza de que encontrará en esta obra cuentos hermosos escritos por cuentistas de talento incuestionable,...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection of the darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales:
Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present:
The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy)
Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki)
Mustapha...