Desperate Remedies (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback)

Desperate Remedies (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston. Blackmail,

Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Hardy abandoned the novel form at the turn of the century, probably after public reaction to Jude the Obscure, but continued to write verse displaying a wide variety of metrical styles and stanza forms and a broad scope of tone and attitude. This definitive volume contains selections from

Mayor of Casterbridge (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Selected Poems (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Although best remembered for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction for a living. This selection of nearly two hundred poems includes pieces, such as 'During Wind and Rain', 'Channel Firing', 'Afterwards', 'The Darkling Thrush', 'The Oxen', 'To

Selected Poetry (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Hardy is among the best-loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his great popularity from the elegaic tone of much of his finest verse and the universality of his subject matter: birth, childhood, love, marriage, age, and death. Those elegies inspired by the death of his first wife

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

The Mayor of Casterbridge (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback)

Set against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author's unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives.Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets

Hardy Poems (Hardy Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

Distringuished as both a great novelist and a great poet. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) had a writing career which spanned more than sixty years, concentrating first on prose and then, after publishing his last novel in 1895, on

Wessex Tales (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback)

In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. But these tales also portray the social and economic stresses of 1880s Dorset, and reveal Hardy's growing scepticism about

Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Hardy's impassioned novel of courtship in rural life In Thomas Hardy's first major literary success, independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different

For Kicks (Francis Dick)(Paperback / softback)

Daniel Roke owns a stud farm in Australia. He's young, smart, hard-working and desperate for some excitement - all of which makes him the ideal candidate for the Earl of October, who has come visiting. The Earl is concerned about a horse-doping scandal that is destroying English

Silence, Joy (Merton Thomas)(Paperback)

In this day of mindless distraction, we're desperate for reasons to put down our phones and reconnect with our spiritual selves. In time for the 50th anniversary of Thomas Merton's death in 1968, Silence, Joy is an invitation to slow down, take a breath, make a space for silence, and open up to

The Mayor of Casterbridge (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback)

It has been collated with the Mellstock Edition of 1920, for which Hardy submitted final corrections. 'Backgrounds and Contexts' provides new and invaluable source material on Victorian Dorset and, in particular, Dorchester, Hardy's native home and the town upon which Casterbridge is based

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

'Thomas Hardy's thrilling story of seduction, murder, cruelty and betrayal' The TimesTess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the

Thomas Hardy's Dorset Through Time (Wallis Steve)(Paperback)

Thomas Hardy celebrated the glorious county of Dorset through his writings. Today our vision of Dorset is very much that fixed by Hardy in novels ranging from Far From the Madding Crowd and The Mayor of Casterbridge to Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. Hurriedly produced in

Thomas Hardy (Hardy Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the

Penguin Readers Level 5: Far from the Madding Crowd (ELT Graded Reader) (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Hardy, Conrad and the Senses (Epstein Hugh)(Paperback)

Explores 'scenic realism' in the major novels of Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad Offers the first book-length study of connections between these two major authors bringing new approaches to bear on often-taught works Provides an understanding of impressionist styles of writing that is drawn from

Thomas Hardy Boxed Set - Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude (Hardy Thomas)(Mixed media product)

Poems of Thomas Hardy: A New Selection (Hardy Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books

Thomas Hardy - The Time-torn Man (Tomalin Claire)(Paperback / softback)

Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband and a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized

St. Thomas More: A Great Man in Hard Times (Reynolds E. E.)(Paperback)

St. Thomas More, by E.E. Reynolds, is a complete life of the saint based on primary source accounts, state papers and contemporary registers. Reynolds leaves no written source uncovered in drawing together for us the man who became one of the most famous men not only in England, but even in Europe,

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback)

Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past