Thomas Hardy
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English
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Controversial when it was first published for challenging Victorian morals, Tess of the d'Urbervilles has become Thomas Hardy's most popular novel, catching the imaginations of generations of readers with its high drama, endearing heroine and powerful evocations of the southern English countryside. This edition contains a wealth of material about the author's life and works, extensive notes and a bibliographic section.
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"This Thomas Hardy novel was his first major literary success, even though he never saw it published. It is set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex and is enriched with his pleasant decriptions of rural life and landscapes. In in Bathsheba Everdene, our independent and spirited heroine, moves into her position as a farmer on a large estated in Weatherbury. During the novel, she attracts three very different men: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 42
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English
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Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion and war.' On her travels she meets Clym Yeobright, a native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.
4) Winter Words
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English
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Selected as one of CD Now’s 10 Essential Comedy/Spoken Word Albums of 2000
Thomas Hardy is best known for his great novels. But he wrote poetry throughout his life, and letters too, reflecting aspects of his personauty that are not so readily seen in his fiction.
An unusual but affecting recording, using the strengths of the audiobook medium. Continuing the series begun so successfully with the tellers and poems of John Keat.
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Pandora's Box
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2024
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English
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If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens,...