Thomas Hardy: 431 books

Michael Henchard est un jeune saisonnier qui vit avec sa femme, Susan, et sa fille, Elizabeth-Jane, dans un village du Wessex. Un jour, sous l’empire de l’alcool, après une violente dispute avec sa femme, il décide de la vendre avec sa fille à un marin de passage, M. Wenson. Dégrisé, il...

Plunging and labouring on in a tide of visions,    Dolorous and dear, Forward I pushed my way as amid waste waters    Stretching around, Through whose eddies there glimmered the customed landscape    Yonder and near, Blotted to feeble mist.  And the coomb...

Ce livre contient une table des matières dynamique. Extrait: Un soir de la fin de mai, un homme d’un certain âge s’en retournait à pied de Shaston au village de Marlott, dans le val voisin de Blackmoor. Ses jambes vacillantes le faisaient obliquer légèrement...

La jolie Tess est d’une fraîcheur à faire chavirer tous les cœurs. Surtout celui de son prétendu cousin, Alec. Mais l’odieux personnage n’est qu’un imposteur… et un profiteur ! Lorsqu’il séduit la jeune fille puis la déshonore, la belle se promet une chose : ne jamais se marier....

Thomasine est sur le point de se marier avec Damon Wildeve, jeune homme charmant mais trop peu sérieux. Courtisé par la frondeuse Eustacia Vye, au tempérament fougueux et aventurier, il répond à ses charmes et hésite à épouser celle qui lui était destinée. Eustacia, avec ses velléités...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: --Book Introduction-- Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments preparing for an expected invasion brings colour and chaos to the county. A graceful and charmi

* Book : A Changed Man and Other Tales * Biography * Bibliography The collection was originally published in book form in 1913, although all of the tales had been previously published in newspapers or magazines from 1881 to 1900. ​ Six of the stories were published before 1891 and therefore...

* Book : Under the Greenwood Tree * Biography * Bibliography The plot concerns the activities of a group of church musicians, the Mellstock parish choir, one of whom, Dick Dewy, becomes romantically entangled with a comely new school mistress, Fancy Day. The novel opens with the fiddlers and...

* Book : The Hand of Ethelberta * Biography * Bibliography 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,...

* Book : Two on a Tower * Biography * Bibliography " 'Ah, my heart! her eyes and she Have taught thee new astrology. Howe'er Love's native hours were set, Whatever starry synod met, 'Tis in the mercy of her eye, If poor Love shall live or die.' CRASHAW: Love's Horoscope. On an early...

* Book : A Laodicean: a Story of To-day * Biography * Bibliography " The sun blazed down and down, till it was within half-an-hour of its setting; but the sketcher still lingered at his occupation of measuring and copying the chevroned doorway a bold and quaint example of a transitional...

* Book : The Woodlanders * Biography * Bibliography The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. Although they have been informally betrothed for...

  I reprint in this volume, for what they may be worth, a dozen minor novels that have been published in the periodical press at various dates in the past, in order to render them accessible to readers who desire to have them in the complete series issued by my publishers.  For aid in reclaiming some of the narratives I express my thanks to the proprietors and editors of the newspapers and magazines in whose pages they first appeared.  ...