This collection of Thomas Hardy's stories include storie stories of witchcraft, smuggling, mystery, humour and heartache.
England - Wessex
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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 story of the ups and downs of their...
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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 disused tower on her estate. Despite...
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Author:HARDY, ThomasSummary: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 love and exotic world she dreams of....
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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 steadfast integrity is finally rewarded by...
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Author:HARDY, ThomasSummary: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 scholar. The two other main characters...
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Author:HARDY, ThomasSummary: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 wife Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited...
