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  • Two on a Tower
    Author: HARDY, Thomas
    Summary:

    Lonely Viviette Constanine awaits the return of her husband from a hunting expedition to Africa. She becomes involved with a young astronomer, Swithin St.Cleeve, who observes the night sky from a...

  • Wessex Tales
    Author: HARDY, Thomas
    Summary:

    This collection of Thomas Hardy's stories include storie stories of witchcraft, smuggling, mystery, humour and heartache.

  • Jude the Obscure
    Author: HARDY, Thomas
    Summary:

    Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy’s novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who dreams of becoming a...

    • Running Time: 14:25 hrs
    • Running Time: 14:25 hrs

  • A Pair of Blue Eyes
    Author: HARDY, Thomas
    Summary:

    Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St. Juliot, where Thomas Hardy began the book during the first days of his courtship of his first...

  • The Woodlanders
    Author: HARDY, Thomas
    Summary:

    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 Melbury....

  • Under the greenwood tree
    Author: HARDY, Thomas
    Summary:

    Hardy’s most charming novel uses the four seasons of the Wessex year as a backdrop for the delightful romance of the young tranter Dick Dewy and Fancy Day, the local school mistress....

  • The Trumpet-Major
    Author: HARDY, Thomas
    Summary:

    Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments preparing for an expected invasion brings colour and chaos...

  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles : a Pure Woman
    Author: HARDY, Thomas
    Summary:

    Forced by her parents' ambitions among her wealthy D'Urberville cousins, Tess Durbeyfield attracts the unscrupulous Alec. Seduced and discarded, she finds work as a milkmaid, and her...

  • The Return of the Native
    Author: HARDY, Thomas
    Summary:

    A tragedy set in the barren land of Edgon Heath. Our heroine, Eustacia, is proud, passionate, cruel, fickle, avaricious, and desperate. She burns every life she touches, never able to find the mad...