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Hemkomsten
Heden kring Wessex i sydvästra England bildar bakgrund för den storslagna historien om fem älskandes öden i slutet av 1800-talet, men utgör också ett personporträtt i egen rätt i …
Tess av D'urberville
Tess Derbyfield växer upp i fattigdom på en bondgård. Hon är vacker och troskyldig så när hennes pappa skickar iväg henne till den välbärgade släkten d’Urberville anar hon inget …
Borgermesteren
Dette er historien om en suksessfull mann som ikke kan rømme fra fortiden. Michael Henchard har i tyve år holdt på en dyster hemmelighet: i fyllerus på et landsbymarked solgte han …
The Hand Of Ethelberta
The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chaptersis a novel by English writer Thomas Hardy first published in 1876. It was written, in serial form, for the Cornhill Magazine. Ethelberta …
A tryst at an ancient earthwork
"At one's every step forward it rises higher against the south sky, with an obtrusive personality that compels the senses to regard it and consider. The eyes may bend in another …
The waiting supper
"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 …
A mere interlude
"The traveller in school-books, who vouched in dryest tones for the fidelity to fact of the following narrative, used to add a ring of truth to it by opening with a nicety of …
Master John Horseleigh, knight
"In the earliest and mustiest volume of the Havenpool marriage registers (said the thin-faced gentleman) this entry may still be read by any one curious enough to decipher the …
The Woodlanders
The Woodlanders is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy. It was serialised 1886-87 in Macmillan's Magazine and published in three volumes in 1887. It is one of his series of …
Fjernt fra byens larm
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) var en britisk romanforfatter og poet. Selv om Hardy anså seg selv som en dikter som skrev romaner hovedsakelig av økonomiske hensyn, var han i sin samtid …
Enter a dragoon
"I lately had a melancholy experience (said the gentleman who is answerable for the truth of this story). It was that of going over a doomed house with whose outside aspect I had …