When a steadfast young shepherd named Gabriel Oak meets the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene, he falls in love with her. He proposes marriage, but proud Bathsheba refuses. Thomas Hardy's novel about the evolution of a relationship between a headstrong woman and a quiet, thoughtful man is a vivid masterpiece.

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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Novelista, cuentista y poeta. Fue uno de los mejores y mas prolificos escritores ingleses del siglo XIX. La prosa de sus novelas es naturalista, clasica, y no obstante el poder de lo extrano brota a pesar del control que el autor ejercio sobre las palabras. Sus personajes son gobernados por las fuerzas ferreas de la naturaleza y por los mecanismos, no menos ferreos, de la sociedad victoriana. El mundo de Hardy fue dirigido por el determinismo biologico y fisico: el azar y la voluntad humana no existian para el. Creo un universo severo. Sin embargo, este mundo dominado...

A Group of Noble dames is an 1891 collection of short stories written by Thomas Hardy. It is a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or 18th century.