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Thomas Hardy
HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
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Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for ‘music, poetry, passion, war’. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath…
‘Tremendous…utterly absorbing’ Independent Proud, passionate Eustacia Vye marries Clym Yeobright in the hope that he will help her escape her cramped rural existence.
‘A tale of true tragedy - a man of potential brought down by his own fatal flaw - wonderfully vivid and strong’ Joanna Trollope The Mayor of Casterbridge is a…
‘Vital, passionate, spirited - from the moment Bathsheba appears she is beguiling’ Independent When Bathsheba Everdean arrives in the small village of Weatherbury she captures the heart of three very…
‘One of the most compassionate of all writers…you feel a kind of agony of helpless tenderness in the writer for all troubled souls’ The Times Jude Fawley is a young…
When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been discussed between her…
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One of the Wessex tales, this tells the story of the brooding, and sometimes brutal Michael Henchard and the women with whom he searches for happiness in the harsh world…
In late nineteenth century England, a poor stonemason has ambitions of attending a university and becoming a scholar.
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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…
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The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the…
A tale of mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity in which Cytherea has taken a position as lady’s maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer, Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man…
Contains stories that include The Melancholy Hussar , A Tragedy of Two Ambitions , The First Countess of Wessex , Barbara of the House of Grebe , For Conscience’ Sake…
Paul Turner
This biography of Thomas Hardy looks at his life and literary career. It shows how both the events of his own life and the influence of Greek and Roman epics…
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Against the lowering background of Egdon Heath, fiery Eustacia Vye passes her days, wishing only for passionate love. She believes that her escape from Egdon lies in marriage to Clym…
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Moving to Christminster to work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking New Woman . Refusing to marry merely for…
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When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her ‘cousin’ Alec proves to be…
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…
