Thomas Hardy: 431 books

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE was written towards the beginning of Hardy's career as a novelist and can be considered one of his most representative works. In this novel, Hardy's tragic vision is powerfully and narrowly focussed on Egdon Heath and the men and women who live on it. Set against the backdrop...

When Elfrise Swanston meets Stephen Smith she is attracted to his handsome face, gentle bearing and the sense of mystery which surrounds him. Although distressed to find that the mystery consists only in the humbleness of his origins, she remains true to their youthful vows. But societal pressures,...

The Melancholy Hussar/ A Tragedy of Two Ambitions/ The First Countess of Wessex/ Barbara of the House of Grebe/ For Conscience' Sake/ The Son's Veto/ On the Western Circuit/ An Imaginative Woman/ A Changed Man/ Enter a Dragoon The 11 short storiesin this collection range from those with the Wessex...

TWO ON A TOWER (1882) is a tale of star-crossed love in which Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers against the background of the stellar universe. The unhappily married Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with Swithin St. Cleeve, an astronomer...

* Book : A Pair of Blue Eyes * Biography * Bibliography Elfride finds herself caught in a battle between her heart, her mind and the expectations of her parents and society. The novel is notable for the strong parallels to Hardy and his first wife Emma Gifford. When Elfride's father finds that...

Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. In The Trumpet-Major, the tale of a woman courted by three competing suitors during the Napoleonic wars, he explores the subversive effects of ordinary human desire...

'Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul?' Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but he is rebuffed, and trapped in a loveless marriage. He falls in love with his unconventional cousin Sue Bridehead, and...

I differenti piani della realtà, raccontati da Hardy meglio di qualsiasi altro autore a cavallo tra Ottocento e Novecento, trovano un'altra meravigliosa interpretazione in questo romanzo del 1874. L'autore gioca con la frustrazione dell'uomo quando si trova di fronte all'indifferenza del caso e alla...

* Book : Tess of the d'Urbervilles * Biography * Bibliography 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...

Powerful and controversial from its 1895 publication to the present, Jude the Obscure scandalized Victorian critics, who condemned it as decadent, indecent, and degenerate. Between its frank portrayals of sexuality and its indictments of marriage, religion, and England's class system, the novel offended...

Fin dove possiamo vedere la nostra felicità? Fino a che punto possiamo conoscerla? Nel bosco (The Woodlanders, 1887), è forse il più struggente tra i romanzi di Hardy per intensità espressiva e sentimentale. Hardy contrappone con maestria due modelli di vita: lesistenza semplice e dignitosa dei...

I piani della realtà, di difficile distinzione e ancor più difficile spiegazione, sono il pane quotidiano di Hardy. Che in questo romanzo racconta il conflitto del protagonista, Jude l'oscuro, attraverso l'alienazione sociale ed economica. La parabola, ancora una volta, è distruttiva. Jude è un...

The Return of the Native is one of Hardy's most popular novels pioneering such themes as sexual politics, thwarted desire, and the conflicting demands of nature and society, a truly a truly modern novel written ahead of its time. Underlying these modern themes, however, is a classical sense of tragedy:...

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