Hardy Thomas: 431 books

The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue— the faintest tradition of what went on behind the scenes, and this dryness as of dust may be transformed...

A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters. The following stories are featured in this collection: The Son’s Veto, For Conscience' Sake, A Tragedy of Two Ambitions, On the Western Circuit, To Please his Wife, The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion, A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four, The Fiddler of the Reels.

This story of the Mellstock Quire and its old established west-gallery musicians, with some supplementary descriptions of similar officials in Two on a Tower, A Few Crusted Characters, and other places, is intended to be a fairly true picture, at first hand, of the personages, ways, and customs which were common among such orchestral bodies in the villages of the time.

Jeune paysanne innocente placée dans une famille, Tess est séduite puis abandonnée par Alec d’Urberville, un de ses jeunes maîtres. L’enfant qu’elle met au monde meurt en naissant. Dans la puritaine société anglaise de la fin du XIXe siècle, c’est là une faute irrémissible, que la...

This 1887 Wessex novel is set in the small woodland village of Little Hintock, where the woodsman Giles Winterborne has long been unofficially engaged to Grace Melbury.  But when Grace's father succeeds in gaining her entry to higher society, he steers her toward a wealthier man . . . with tragic results.

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Hardys stimmungsvollster Roman, der das ländliche Leben Südenglands in lyrischen Naturschilderungen beschwört. Die fiktive Grafschaft Wessex im Südengland des 19. Jahrhunderts: Bathsheba Everdene ist eine eigenwillige, schöne, junge Frau, die ihre Unabhängigkeit schätzt. Bathshebas Art bleibt...

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Gabriel Oak ist ein junger Hirte. Mit den Ersparnissen eines genügsamen Lebens und einem Kredit hat er eine Schaffarm gepachtet und aufgestockt. Er verliebt sich in einen acht Jahre jüngeren Newcomer namens Bathsheba Everdene, eine stolze Schönheit, die bei ihrer Tante Mrs. Hurst lebt. Im...

An earthy tale of country loving in 1870s England; Bathsheba Everdene is that unusual combination - a beautiful young woman who is also mistress of her own farm. Proposals of marriage are not long in coming, but with her lack of experience in judging men, how can she possibly choose between the solid...