Hardy Thomas: 431 books

Ethelberta Petherwin, aka Berta Chickerel, moves with ease between her multiple identities, cleverly managing a brilliant career as a society poet in London. Her family act as her servants to help her conque the male-dominated literary world. Beautiful, clever, and rational, she soon attracts four very persistent suitors: Mr. Julian, Mr. Neigh, Mr. Ladywell, and Lord Mountclere.

At the beginning of the book, we are told that Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but, through her work as a governess, married well at the age of eighteen. Her husband died two weeks after the wedding and, now twenty-one, Ethelberta lives with her mother-in-law, Lady Petherwin. In the...

The changing of the old order in country manors and mansions may be slow or sudden, may have many issues romantic or otherwise, its romantic issues being not necessarily restricted to a change back to the original order; though this admissible instance appears to have been the only romance formerly recognized...

This 1873 novel features a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, who must choose between two suitors.  Stephen Smith is an ambitious architect's assistant whose father was a mason.  Henry Knight is older and of the upper class.  Elfride finds her heart torn by her feelings for both men . . . and the necessity of choosing between them. 

Egden Heath is the scene of this family saga where the lives of Diggory Venn and Thomasin Yeobright will always be connected.

The village of Little Hintock welcomes a visitor, a handsome doctor named Edred Fitzpiers. The newcomer soon works his way into the affections of Grace Melbury and her ambitious father. When Grace and Fitzpiers marry the honest local woodsman Giles Winterbourne loses his childhood sweetheart. But will the marriage prove to be a match made in heaven?

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...