Thomas Hardy was part of the English naturalist movement. He wrote short stories, novels, and poetry. Poems in this collection include The Temporary The All, Amabel, Hap, "In Vision I Roamed," At a Bridal, Postponement, A Confession to a Friend in Trouble, Neutral Tones, She, Her Initials, Her Dilemma, Revulsion, She, To Him, Ditty, The Sergeant's Song, Valenciennes, San Sebastian, The Stranger's Song, The Burghers, Leipzig, The Peasant's Confession, The Alarm, Her Death and After, The Dance at the Phoenix, The Casterbridge Captains, A Sign-Seeker, My Cicely, Her Immortality, The Ivy-Wife, A...

Thomas Hardy was part of the English naturalist movement. Thomas Hardy was one of the great Victorian novelists - and also one of the great twentieth-century poets. He wrote classic accounts of the beauty of the countryside and the traditions of village life. A sample of the lyrics include In Front of the Landscape, Channel Firing, The Convergence of the Twain, The Ghost of the Past, After the Visit, To Meet, or Otherwise, and "When I set out for Lyonnesse." Some of the Satires of Circumstance include At Tea, In Church, By her Aunt's Grave, In the Room of the Bride-elect, At the...

The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, a village stonemason who yearns to be a scholar at Christminster, a city modeled on Oxford, England. The novela also follows his earthy wife, Arabella, and his cousin, Sue. The elaborately structured plot dwells on subtle details and accidents lead to the characters' ruin while exploring many different themes.

Gabriel Oak is an up-and-coming shepherd in the prime of life at twenty-eight years of age. With the savings of a frugal life, he has leased and stocked a sheep-farm. He falls in love with a newcomer eight years younger, Bathsheba Everdene, a proud and somewhat vain young beauty. She comes to like him well enough.

A collection of the very finest ghostly short stories written by Thomas Hardy. 18 short stories, including, 'What the Shepard Saw', 'The Three Strangers', 'The Withered Arm', and many more.

The novel is set in impoverished rural Wessex during the Long Depression. Tess is the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield, uneducated rural peasants. One day, Parson Tringham informs John that he has noble blood. Tringham, an amateur genealogist, has discovered that "Durbeyfield" is a corruption of "D'Urberville," the surname of a noble Norman family.

Gabriel Oaks observes Bathsheba Everdene, the young mistress of Weatherbury Farm, fall victim to bad decisions and romantic impulses, unaware of the stroke of fate that will finally bring about their union. Revised reissue.

This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.