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Two on a Tower

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Literary Classics
A young astronomer works from a column on a hill; the lady of the manor, ten years older and married to an absent husband, climbs it to see the stars. Hardy set out to make the emotions of two people small against the interstellar distances, and the Bishop of Wakefield thought it immoral. It is the least read of his Wessex novels and the tenderest. ... Read more

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A young astronomer works from a column on a hill; the lady of the manor, ten years older and married to an absent husband, climbs it to see the stars. Hardy set out to make the emotions of two people small against the interstellar distances, and the Bishop of Wakefield thought it immoral. It is the least read of his Wessex novels and the tenderest.
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Wessex Tales

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Literary Classics
The Wessex short stories: the hangman who comes to supper and does not say what he does; the three strangers; a wife who takes her husband's arm to a dead man's hand for a cure; the Trumpet-Major's Melancholy Hussar deserting for love. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; these came from what he was told as a boy by people who had seen it, and the withered arm is not a metaphor. ... Read more

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The Wessex short stories: the hangman who comes to supper and does not say what he does; the three strangers; a wife who takes her husband's arm to a dead man's hand for a cure; the Trumpet-Major's Melancholy Hussar deserting for love. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; these came from what he was told as a boy by people who had seen it, and the withered arm is not a metaphor.
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Life's Little Ironies

A Set of Tales with Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Literary Classics
The stories where Wessex stops being pastoral: a schoolmaster's wife who cannot forgive her son's face; a man who exchanges his child; a tranter's tale told on a carrier's van; the son who is ashamed of his mother at Oxford. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; these 1894 tales are his coldest, and the irony of the title is not gentle — the ordinary arrangements of respectable life ... Read more

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The stories where Wessex stops being pastoral: a schoolmaster's wife who cannot forgive her son's face; a man who exchanges his child; a tranter's tale told on a carrier's van; the son who is ashamed of his mother at Oxford. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; these 1894 tales are his coldest, and the irony of the title is not gentle — the ordinary arrangements of respectable life
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Desperate Remedies

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Mystery & Crime
A young woman with no money takes a post as a lady's maid to a wealthy spinster, and finds that the household's secrets involve the architect she once loved. Hardy published it anonymously at thirty-one, after paying his own guarantee against loss, and wrote it to a publisher's brief: give us a plot with mystery in it. The Wessex he would spend his life mapping is already visible underneath the ... Read more

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A young woman with no money takes a post as a lady's maid to a wealthy spinster, and finds that the household's secrets involve the architect she once loved. Hardy published it anonymously at thirty-one, after paying his own guarantee against loss, and wrote it to a publisher's brief: give us a plot with mystery in it. The Wessex he would spend his life mapping is already visible underneath the
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The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy, Mint Editions ...

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a masterwork of emotional complexity, heartbreak, and redemption by celebrated English author Thomas Hardy.Drunk and outraged, Michael Henchard auctions off his own wife and daughter for five guineas. The following morning, he searches for his family to no avail and, with the clarity of sobriety, swears off liquor for the next 21 years. In that time, he becomes ... Read more

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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a masterwork of emotional complexity, heartbreak, and redemption by celebrated English author Thomas Hardy.Drunk and outraged, Michael Henchard auctions off his own wife and daughter for five guineas. The following morning, he searches for his family to no avail and, with the clarity of sobriety, swears off liquor for the next 21 years. In that time, he becomes
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The Mayor of Casterbridge

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Thomas Hardy ...

On the road to Weydon-Priors, a weary young family moves through Hardy's stark rural world in silence: Michael Henchard, his wife Susan, and their small child, Elizabeth-Jane. The dust on their clothes, his brooding self-absorption, and her patient burden-bearing immediately suggest a marriage strained by hardship and emotional poverty. When they reach the fair, the bustling, half-finished market ... Read more

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On the road to Weydon-Priors, a weary young family moves through Hardy's stark rural world in silence: Michael Henchard, his wife Susan, and their small child, Elizabeth-Jane. The dust on their clothes, his brooding self-absorption, and her patient burden-bearing immediately suggest a marriage strained by hardship and emotional poverty. When they reach the fair, the bustling, half-finished market
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy ...

Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d’Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec d’Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies ... Read more

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Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d’Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec d’Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies
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A Pair of Blue Eyes

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Literary Classics
A young architect is sent to a remote Cornish parish to survey a church tower and falls in love with the rector's daughter; so, later, does the London critic who reviews his work. Hardy had been that architect, restoring churches for a living, and he set the novel on the cliffs he knew — where he also invented the cliffhanger, quite literally, in the most famous chapter. ... Read more

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A young architect is sent to a remote Cornish parish to survey a church tower and falls in love with the rector's daughter; so, later, does the London critic who reviews his work. Hardy had been that architect, restoring churches for a living, and he set the novel on the cliffs he knew — where he also invented the cliffhanger, quite literally, in the most famous chapter.
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The Woodlanders

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Literary Classics
In a Dorset hamlet where everyone lives by the trees, a timber merchant educates his daughter above her station and marries her to a doctor who despises the place. Around them: a man who plants saplings and says nothing, a lady in the big house, a barber after a woman's hair. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; he said later this was the novel of his he liked best as a story, and ... Read more

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In a Dorset hamlet where everyone lives by the trees, a timber merchant educates his daughter above her station and marries her to a doctor who despises the place. Around them: a man who plants saplings and says nothing, a lady in the big house, a barber after a woman's hair. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; he said later this was the novel of his he liked best as a story, and
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The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy

by Thomas Hardy ...

Discover the extraordinary literary legacy of one of England's greatest writers in this comprehensive collection of timeless works. Explore "The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy," a remarkable anthology featuring the novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and other literary writings of one of the most influential figures in English literature. Renowned for his evocative prose, memorable characters, ... Read more

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Discover the extraordinary literary legacy of one of England's greatest writers in this comprehensive collection of timeless works. Explore "The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy," a remarkable anthology featuring the novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and other literary writings of one of the most influential figures in English literature. Renowned for his evocative prose, memorable characters,
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A Pair of Blue Eyes

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Thomas Hardy ...

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. On the stormy coast of Lower Wessex, amid church restorations, sea cliffs, and old traditions under pressure, Thomas Hardy introduces Elfride Swancourt, a private, emotionally transparent young woman whose striking blue eyes seem to reveal what she cannot say. Her sheltered life at the Endelstow vicarage is ... Read more

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This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. On the stormy coast of Lower Wessex, amid church restorations, sea cliffs, and old traditions under pressure, Thomas Hardy introduces Elfride Swancourt, a private, emotionally transparent young woman whose striking blue eyes seem to reveal what she cannot say. Her sheltered life at the Endelstow vicarage is
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The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends

by Louisa May Alcott, James Allen, Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum, William Blake, Anne Brontë, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, G. K. Chesterton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, F. Marion Crawford, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Van Dyke, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, The Brothers Grimm, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Hardy, Frances Ridley Havergal, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Felicia Hemans, O. Henry, Oliver Herford, E. T. A. Hoffmann, William Dean Howells, Ben Jonson, Washington Irving, John Keble, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Selma Lagerlöf, Winifred Kirkland, Andrew Lang, Stephen Leacock, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, H. P. Lovecraft, George MacDonald, Charles Mackay, William Topaz McGonagall, Alice Duer Miller, Emily Huntington Miller, Olive Thorne Miller, John Milton, S. Weir Mitchell, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clement C. Moore, William Morris, Mary Noailles Murfree, John Mason Neale, Thomas Nelson Page, Elia W. Peattie, Marjorie Pickthall, Beatrix Potter, Katharine Pyle, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mary Darby Robinson, Christina Rossetti, Damon Runyon, Saki, Walter Scott, Edmund Hamilton Sears, William Shakespeare, Nora Archibald Smith, Robert Southwell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank Stockton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Addington Symonds, John Banister Tabb, Booth Tarkington, Nahum Tate, Sara Teasdale, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edward Thring, Henry Timrod, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Tusser, Mark Twain, Katharine Tynan, Henry Vaughan, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Lucy Wheelock, John G. Whittier, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Oscar Wilde, John Strange Winter, George Wither, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe ...

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, ... Read more

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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,
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