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Two on a Tower
Two on a Tower was written in the year 1882 by Thomas Hardy. This book is one of the most popular novels of Thomas Hardy, and has been translated into several other languages …
Jude the Obscure
Hardy's masterpiece traces a poor stonemason's ill-fated romance with his free-spirited cousin. No Victorian institution is spared - marriage, religion, education - and the outrage …
Under the Greenwood Tree
The plot concerns the activities of a group of church musicians, the Mellstock parish choir, one of whom, Dick Dewy, becomes romantically entangled with a comely new school …
Changed Man and Other Tales
A dozen minor novels that have been published in the periodical press collected together.
Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a …
Hand of Ethelberta
At the beginning of the book, we are told that Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but, through her work as a governess, married well at the age of eighteen. Her husband …
Woodlanders
The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace …
Desperate Remedies
Described by Hardy as a tale of "e;mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity"e;, his first published novel violated the literary decorum of its day with …
Laodicean: A Story of To-Day
A vacillating young woman is thrust onto the horns of religious and romantic dilemmas.
Pair of Blue Eyes
Elfride finds herself caught in a battle between her heart, her mind and the expectations of her parents and society. The novel is notable for the strong parallels to Hardy and his …
Trumpet-Major
Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. In The Trumpet Major, the tale of a woman …
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who …