Thomas Hardy: 431 books

Anne Garland is the belle of the town, and three men want her hand in marriage - John Loveday, the trumpet-major, his brother Bob a sailor and Festus Derriman, a member of the local gentry. Which man will prevail?

This is the story of a love which trascends class and birthright. Lady Constantine, a widower falls in love with Swithin St. Cleeve, a young astronomer. But something is written in the stars which may yet prove to be fatal.

La bellissima e volubile Elfride, orfana di madre e unica figlia del pastore Swancourt, si innamora di Stephen Smith, giovane architetto di Londra erroneamente ritenuto di nobili origini. Poi, quando questi per poterla sposare accetta un incarico in India, Elfride conosce l’affascinante e maturo...

Dall'autore di Tess dei D'Uberville: Margery, giovane lattaia di un paesino di campagna, salva un nobile ricco e infelice che le ragala in cambio una giornata indimenticabile. E sconvolgente.

Desiderio femminile, pazzia, ruoli sociali. Un lungo racconto magistrale, narrato con maestria e con inconsapevole profondità psicanalitica.

Una donna irrequieta, sognatrice, insoddisfatta, un matrimonio clandestino e poi un altro con un uomo più vecchio e poco attraente. Una short story di epoca vittoriana in cui il gioco degli equivoci e le coincidenze grottesche generano una stupefacente combinazione di commedia e tragedia.

Maravillosa edición de Grandes Clásicos Literatura Random House de esta novela sobre la naturaleza del amor y la fatalidad del deseo, por uno de los novelistas ingleses más importantes de finales del siglo XIX. «Había algo en la muchacha que no se podía pasar por alto: sus ojos. Eran...

The present tale is founded more largely on testimony—oral and written—than any other in this series. The external incidents which direct its course are mostly an unexaggerated reproduction of the recollections of old persons well known to the author in childhood, but now long dead, who were eye–witnesses...

And bids us such a breast-bare spectacle see

Of the miscellaneous collection of verse that follows, only four pieces have been published, though many were written long ago, and other partly written.  In some few cases the verses were turned into prose and printed as such, it having been unanticipated at that time that they might see the...

Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who has purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family. She employs two architects, one local and one, George Somerset, newly qualified from London. Somerset represents modernity in the novel. The changing of the old order in country...

The unhappily married Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with Swithin St. Cleeve, an astronomer who is ten years her junior. Her husband's death leaves the lovers free to marry, but the discovery of a legacy forces them apart.