Books author - "Thomas Hardy"
accustomed to many eyes.And as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun, so each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, at least some remote and distant hope which, though perhaps starving to nothing, still lived on, as hopes will. They were all cheerful, and many of them merry. They came round by The Pure Drop Inn, and were turning out of the high road to pass through a wicket-gate into the meadows, when one of the women said--
Description Tess of the dโUrbervilles is said to be Thomas Hardyโs fictional masterpiece and is considered to be an important nineteenth century novel. It explores themes of love, sex, class and morality in an aching love story. It initially appeared in a censored, serialised version in The Graphic in 1891 and was published in a single volume the following year. Early reviews were mixed, partly because of its challenge to Victorian sexual moralsโit is now looked upon much more favorably. Tess
Description Grace Melbury, daughter of a rich local wood-trader, has been raised beyond her family through years of expensive education. Coming home, she finds herself pulled between her love for her childhood friend Giles Winterborne, and the allure of the enigmatic Doctor Fitzpiers. Giles and Edgar have their own admirers too, and the backdrop of the bucolic pastures and woodlands of an impressionistic take on south-west England provides the perfect setting for their story. The Woodlanders
Description Jude the Obscure was first published in its complete form in 1895, just after finishing its serial run in Harperโs Magazine. At the time, its unconventional and somewhat scandalous themes earned it widespread criticism and condemnation. In the 1912 โWessex Edition,โ Hardy appended a postscript to the bookโs preface in which he stated that the outrage ultimately abated with no lingering effect other than โcompletely curing me of further interest in novel-writing.โ Indeed, Jude was to
Winterborne'S House Had Been Pulled down. On This Account His Face Had Been Seen But Fitfully In hintock; And He Would Probably Have Disappeared from The Place Altogether But For His Slight Business Connection With Melbury, On Whose Premises Giles Kept His Cider-Making apparatus, Now That He Had No Place Of His Own To Stow It In. Coming here One Evening on His Way To A Hut Beyond The Wood Where He Now Slept, He Noticed that The Familiar Brown- Thatched pinion Of His Paternal Roof Had Vanished
accustomed to many eyes.And as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun, so each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, at least some remote and distant hope which, though perhaps starving to nothing, still lived on, as hopes will. They were all cheerful, and many of them merry. They came round by The Pure Drop Inn, and were turning out of the high road to pass through a wicket-gate into the meadows, when one of the women said--
Description Tess of the dโUrbervilles is said to be Thomas Hardyโs fictional masterpiece and is considered to be an important nineteenth century novel. It explores themes of love, sex, class and morality in an aching love story. It initially appeared in a censored, serialised version in The Graphic in 1891 and was published in a single volume the following year. Early reviews were mixed, partly because of its challenge to Victorian sexual moralsโit is now looked upon much more favorably. Tess
Description Grace Melbury, daughter of a rich local wood-trader, has been raised beyond her family through years of expensive education. Coming home, she finds herself pulled between her love for her childhood friend Giles Winterborne, and the allure of the enigmatic Doctor Fitzpiers. Giles and Edgar have their own admirers too, and the backdrop of the bucolic pastures and woodlands of an impressionistic take on south-west England provides the perfect setting for their story. The Woodlanders
Description Jude the Obscure was first published in its complete form in 1895, just after finishing its serial run in Harperโs Magazine. At the time, its unconventional and somewhat scandalous themes earned it widespread criticism and condemnation. In the 1912 โWessex Edition,โ Hardy appended a postscript to the bookโs preface in which he stated that the outrage ultimately abated with no lingering effect other than โcompletely curing me of further interest in novel-writing.โ Indeed, Jude was to
Winterborne'S House Had Been Pulled down. On This Account His Face Had Been Seen But Fitfully In hintock; And He Would Probably Have Disappeared from The Place Altogether But For His Slight Business Connection With Melbury, On Whose Premises Giles Kept His Cider-Making apparatus, Now That He Had No Place Of His Own To Stow It In. Coming here One Evening on His Way To A Hut Beyond The Wood Where He Now Slept, He Noticed that The Familiar Brown- Thatched pinion Of His Paternal Roof Had Vanished