Thomas Hardy: 431 books

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Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy’s novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. Part...

Set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars The Trumpet Major is Hardy's historical masterpiece skilfully depicting local life, fears of the press gang, invasion, the beauty of romantic love, and rivalry of two brothers for the hand of Anne Garland.

Pubblicato nel 1886 Hardy narra l’ascesa e la caduta di un uomo modesto e comune tormentato dagli errori del proprio passato: ubriaco vendette la moglie Susan e la figlia Elizabeth-Jane a un marinaio. Il sindaco di Casterbridge è un libro coinvolgente che tocca temi assolutamente attuali: le debolezze...

During England’s wars with Napoleon, lovely Anne Garland is pursued by an ardent trio: the cowardly but wealthy Festus Derriman; the wayward sailor Bob Loveday; and Bob’s brother John, trumpet-major in a British regiment. This 1880 novel has the brothers follow Wellington and Nelson into battle and—in a departure for Hardy—concludes with a relatively happy ending.

This 1882 Wessex romance follows the tender story of two star-crossed lovers: Lady Constantine, who is stuck in a miserable marriage, and Swithin St. Cleeve, a young astronomer. Hardy’s aim was to “set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe.”

Published anonymously in 1872, this is Hardy's second novel – the last to appear without his name and the first to feature his invented county of Wessex.  It is a comic, somewhat idyllic precursor to his later tragedies, focusing on the activities of the Mellstock parish choir and a romance between Dick Dewy and the new schoolmistress, Fancy Day.  

Una brughiera semideserta e desolata fa da sfondo alla vicenda di due uomini e due donne, che vedono i propri destini incrociarsi tra loro. È l'ambientazione di un romanzo davvero singolare e suggestivo: scritto nel 1878, Hardy in queste pagine ci accompagna attraverso storie che si svolgono nel...

Via dalla pazza folla narra le appassionanti vicende di Gabriel Oak, un giovane la cui vita viene sconvolta dall’inatteso arrivo dell’affascinante Bathsheba, bellezza orgogliosa e nullatenente di cui s’innamora. Quando le chiede di sposarlo lei lo rifiuta, ma i loro destini tornano a incrociarsi:...

Abbandonata dal marito, un ricco proprietario terriero, Viviette Constantine si innamora di Swithin St Cleve, di ben nove anni più giovane di lei, bellissimo, colto e gentile figlio di un curato di campagna. Swithin è un astronomo e lavora in cima a una torre dove trascorre tutto il suo tempo a...

"Los habitantes del bosque" forma, junto con "Tess" y "Jude el oscuro", el tríptico con el que Hardy cerró su carrera de novelista y nos dio sus mejores creaciones. Pese a ser un poco menos conocida que las otras, "Los habitantes del bosque" tal vez sea su...

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 and conflicting loyalties on systematized versions of history.

Set in the Isle of Slingers modelled on the Isle of Portland the novel continues to explore Hardy's favourite themes of relationships, exploration of human nature and human nature. The story follows Jocelyn Pierston, a celebrated sculptor who tries to create an image of his ideal woman in stone and attempting to find her in the flesh.

Published in 1871, this novel of “mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'”—as the author himself later described it—launched Hardy's literary career . . . though, because of the scandalous subject matter, including blackmail, murder, and forbidden sexuality, the novel appeared anonymously.