On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He occasionally gave a smart nod, as if in confirmation of some opinion, though he was not thinking of anything in particular. An empty egg-basket was slung upon his arm, the nap of his hat was ruffled, a patch being quite worn away at its brim where his thumb came in taking it off....
On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakem...
Jude Fawley, a young man who craves education like others might crave food or drink. Jude decides he wants to go to university and he works toward that goal until at the age of nineteen he is sidelined when the girl he has been courting tells him she is pregnant. Jude marries this girl, but, the pregnancy having been a lie to trap him, the marriage quickly fails and the girl leaves. Jude moves to the university town a short time later and meets his soul mate in his cousin, Sue Bridehead. However, Sue refuses to love him and instead marries another. In time, Sue comes back to Jude, but tragedy...
Jude Fawley, a young man who craves education like others might crave food or drink. Jude decides he wants to go to university and he works toward tha...
Jocelyn Pierston pertenece a una de las familias mas importantes de Horada, una isla dedicada a la explotacion de sus canteras. Sin embargo, desea dedicarse al arte y aspira a ser uno de los genios mas reputados de Inglaterra. Romantico empedernido, cree estar bajo los efectos de una maldicion que le impele a perseguir a la amada ideal. Esta atraccion, a la que su voluntad no puede oponerse, sera la causa de su desdicha, y de una extraodinaria historia de amor que abarca cuarenta anos de su vida y que queda reflejada en la relacion que mantendra con tres generaciones de la familia Caro, la...
Jocelyn Pierston pertenece a una de las familias mas importantes de Horada, una isla dedicada a la explotacion de sus canteras. Sin embargo, desea ded...
Jude the Obscure, the last completed of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion and marriage.
Jude the Obscure, the last completed of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 189...
Two on a Tower (1882) is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, 1] classified by him as a romance and fantasy and now regarded as one of his minor works. The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, set in a parallel version of late Victorian Dorset
Two on a Tower (1882) is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, 1] classified by him as a romance and fantasy and now regarded as one of his minor w...
Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 48 on the BBC's survey The Big Read and in 2007, the book finished 10th on the Guardian's list of greatest love stories of all time. Gabriel Oak is a young shepherd. With the savings of a frugal life, and a loan, he has leased and stocked a sheep farm. He falls in love with a newcomer six years his junior, Bathsheba Everdene, a proud beauty who arrives to live with her aunt, Mrs Hurst. Over time, Bathsheba and Gabriel grow to like each other well enough, and...
Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 48 on the BBC'...
