Thomas Hardy
Ads ız Sansız Bir Jude
Thomas Hardy
Acıklı bir ilişkiyi konu etmesinin yanı sıra sıkışmış bir varoluşun, hatta var olamayışın öyküsü olarak Adsız Sansız Bir Jude, Thomas Hardy’nin belki de en sert, en etkileyici ve en ümitsiz eseridir.
Akademiye girme hayalini, yoksulluk ve üniversite yetkililerinin kayıtsızlığı yüzünden gerçekleştiremeyen taş ustası Jude Fawley, mutluluğu kuzini Sue Bridehead’de aramaya başlar. Başarısız evlilikler yaşamış bu iki karakterin sınıflara, topluma ve çağa meydan okuyan kenetlenişi, acı bir olay sonrasında çözülecektir. Taşralı olmayı ardında bırakamayan bir adamın hikâyesi olarak belki de en acıklı ve kişisel Hardy romanı denebilecek Adsız Sansız Bir Jude, modern dünyanın kırsal İngiltere’nin eteklerinde gezindiği dönemin bir anlatısı olarak aynı zamanda sosyal tarih eseridir de. Romanın cinsel ilişkileri ve evlilik kurumunu ele alış biçimi Victoria dönemi İngilteresi’ni sarsmış, yazarın romancılık kariyerinin de sonunu getirmiştir.
“Hardy bence her şeyden önce bir şairdi, romanlarını da ulaştığı o seviyeden yazardı. Yazdığı trajedi ve trajikomedilerde, adeta bir çekicin vurma sesi duyulur”.
E.M. FORSTER
A Laodicean
Thomas Hardy
The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle an ancient castle in need of modernization She commissions George Somerset a young architect to undertake the work Somerset falls in love with Paula but she the Laodicean of the title is torn between his admiration and that of Captain De Stancy whose old world romanticism contrasts with Somerset s forward looking outlook Paula s vacillation however is not only romantic Her ambiguity regarding religion politics and social progress is a reflection of the author s own This new Penguin Classics edition of Hardy s text contains an introduction and notes that illuminate and clarify these themes and draws parallels between the text and the author s life and views The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate Paula Power inherits ancient Stancy Castle She commissions George Somerset a young architect to undertake the work but is then torn between George s admiration and that of Captain De Stancy whose old world romanticism contrasts with Somerset s forward looking attitude
A Mere Interlude
Thomas Hardy
Love can be heartbreaking
As Baptista travels home to marry her parents’ old neighbour, she encounters her lost lover. They elope together, but tragedy strikes unexpectedly on their wedding day and she returns to her parents to do her duty. Will her other, brief love remain a secret?
Am grünen Rand der Welt
Thomas Hardy
Als sie zu ihrer Tante in ein kleines Dorf im Südwesten Englands zieht, wirkt die stolze Schönheit Bathsheba Everdene wie eine Exotin. Sie schart eine Reihe von Verehrern um sich, darunter den bescheidenen Schäfer Gabriel Oak, den wohlhabenden Farmer William Boldwood und den charmanten Soldaten Francis Troy. Doch welcher ist der Richtige?
Am grünen Rand der Welt (engl. Far from the Madding Crowd) bedeutete für Thomas Hardy 1874 den literarischen Durchbruch. Diese Neuausgabe in attraktiver Sonderausstattung bietet die zeitgemäße Übersetzung von Peter Marginter und Roswith Krege-Mayer.
An Imaginative Woman
Thomas Hardy
A short story written by Thomas Hardy was published in Wessex Tales collection in 1888. Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Thomas Hardy
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy's novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic.
With settings in Wessex and London, the novel also has some strongly autobiographical features, as the blue-eyed heroine, Elfride Swancourt, is based largely on Emma Gifford, who became Thomas Hardy's first wife. Elfride's vivacious nature attracts several lovers, but she is beset by sexual prejudice, and the ensuing ironies reveal the constraints of her times.
A Pair of Blue Eyes provides an engaging and moving experience for today's readers.
Barbara of the House of Grebe
Thomas Hardy
Desiderio femminile, pazzia, ruoli sociali. Un lungo racconto magistrale, narrato con maestria e con inconsapevole profondità psicanalitica.
Çılgın Kalabalıktan Uzak
Thomas Hardy
Güzel Batsheba Everdene, kendisine miras kalan büyük ve bakımsız çiftliği çekip çevirmek için Weatherbury köyüne gelir. Dürtülerinin etkisiyle hareket eden Batsheba, köydeki üç erkek (atılgan ama sorumsuz Çavuş Troy, saplantılarının tutsağı olan çiftçi William Boldwood, sadık ve becerikli Gabriel Oak) arasında bocalarken, duygusal bir eğitimden geçecektir...
19. yüzyıl sonları İngiltere'sinin kırsal ortamını ustalıkla betimleyen ve Batsheba'nın canlı bir portresini sunan Çılgın Kalabalıktan Uzak, yazarı Thomas Hardy'ye büyük ün kazandırmıştı. Mizahî, melodramatik, pastoral ve trajik öğeleri ustaca harmanlayan roman, Hardy'nin her zamanki ihanet ve aşk acısı temalarını işlemekle birlikte, yazarın en sıcak, en eğlenceli yapıtlarından biridir.
Cuentos ingleses de misterio / English Mystery Stories (Clasicos De Siempre) (Spanish Edition)
Thomas Hardy
No es comun encontrar en un solo volumen los nombres de Hardy Hood Walpole Collins Saki y Stevenson integrando una seleccion de cuentos que abordan el tema de lo misterioso o sobrenatural. Estos relatos impecablemente traducidos entran de lleno en un tema muy caro a todos los el misterio de la muerte la ruindad del chantaje la existencia o no de los fantasmas los aspectos mas sordidos y desconocidos de un mundo que tal vez este solo en nuestra imaginacion pero que aun desde alli sorprende inquieta perturba desasosiega. Los cuentos seleccionados son de alta calidad y este sexteto de grandes nombres de la literatura hacen de este un libro en cuya lectura los amantes de los clasicos no pueden dejar de adentrarse.
Daleko od razuzdane gomile
Thomas Hardy
Očaravajući klasik o ljubavi, strasti, žrtvi i rušenju mladalačkih snova i nadanja.
Slobodoumna i vatrena Vitsaveja Everdin došla je u Vederberi da preuzme najveće imanje u toj oblasti, nešto što nije bilo uobičajeno za žene tog vremena. Njen hrabri nastup i strastvenost privlače tri vrlo različita udvarača: bogatog zemljoposednika Boldvuda, arogantnog narednika Troja i skromnog farmera Gabrijela Ouka. Svaki na svoj način uspeva da uzdrma njene odluke i komplikuje joj život, a u neobičnom obrtu sudbine upravo će njena neodlučnost ugroziti stabilnost čitave zajednice.
Veličanstvena priča koja će vas opčiniti neobičnim obrtima sve do poslednje strane. Obavezno štivo za sve nepopravljive romantike.
Departe de lumea dezlănţuită
Thomas Hardy
Gabriel Oak, un fermier prosper, se indragosteste de Batsheba, o fata simpla, fara prea multa avere, care nu a cunoscut niciodata iubirea. Firea ei independenta o impiedica sa accepte propunerea lui Gabriel de a-i deveni sotie. Destinul face ca pe parcursul romanului situatia materiala a celor doi sa se schimbe total: Batsheba mosteneste o ferma, in vreme ce Gabriel o pierde pe a lui. In noua stare de lucruri, Gabriel se angajeaza la ferma femeii pe care o divinizeaza, dar cu care nu are decat relatii de prietenie. Cu timpul, Batsheba intra in alte doua relatii sentimentale, cu William, un bogatas celebru pentru statutul sau de celibatar, care nu ii poate oferi o iubire neconditionata, si cu sergentul Frank Troy, un barbat aratos, dar prea impulsiv, care o tine la distanta.
Desperate Remedies
Thomas Hardy
Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy. With an introduction by Michael Irwin. The young Thomas Hardy was working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a sensation novel in the mode of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and storm, flight and pursuit. Anyone who enjoys The Woman in White is likely to enjoy Desperate Remedies. But that is only half the story. Hardy contrived also, in this unlikely context, to give a first airing to various of the ideas and technical experiments which were to characterise his later fiction. The result is an exhilaratingly uneven work: at any point in the narrative some brilliant passage of description or metaphor may burst out like a firework. Desperate Remedies can be relished both for what it is and for what it promises.
Doi ochi albaștri
Thomas Hardy
Frumoasa Elfride, personajul principal, este prinsa fara voia ei intr-un triunghi amoros. Tanara trebuie sa aleaga intre doi pretendenti foarte diferiti din toate punctele de vedere: Stephen Smith, sarac, dar plin de vise si energie si Henry Knight, un londonez respectabil si instarit. Scris intr-un moment crucial in viata lui Hardy, „Doi ochi albastri“ exprima in mod direct, mai mult decat oricare alt roman al sau, evenimentele si trairile autorului care l-au determinat sa se dedice in totalitate carierei literare. Romanul descrie framantarile tinerei, constienta de asteptarile parintilor, normele sociale si propriile impulsuri si dorinte.
Due occhi azzurri
Thomas Hardy
Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of his first wife, Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends become rivals, and Elfride faces an agonizing choice. Written at a crucial time in Hardy's life, A Pair of Blue Eyes expresses more directly than any of his novels the events and social forces that made him the writer he was. Elfride's dilemma mirrors the difficult decision Hardy himself had to make with this novel: to pursue the profession of architecture, where he was established, or literature, where he had yet to make his name. This updated edition contains a new introduction, bibliography, and chronology.
Egy tiszta nő
Thomas Hardy
Tess, a tiszta lelkű, romlatlan lány egy nagy hírű nemesi család elszegényedett sarja. Becsületes, sugárzik belőle az életöröm, ám ő magasabb körökbe vágyik. A boldogság ígéretét felvillantó igaz szerelmet szolgaként találja meg, csakhogy az idill hamisnak bizonyul: Tess végzetes döntésre, végső leszámolásra szánja el magát…
Az angol prózairodalom kiemelkedő alakjának legérettebb műve a különleges szépségű parasztlány krónikája. Babits így írt a világirodalom örök klasszikusáról: „Ez a művészet nagyvonalú, sőt monumentális. Világérzés és tragikus életérzés van mögötte.”
Estremi rimedi
Thomas Hardy
Estremi rimedi è il romanzo d’esordio di Thomas Hardy, in cui già si dispiegano tutti gli elementi che faranno la fortuna del suo autore: l’ispirazione gotica, un intreccio impeccabile, la magistrale caratterizzazione dei personaggi. Protagonista di questa storia è la giovane Cytherea Graye: rimasta orfana, la ragazza decide di trasferirsi con il fratello Owen in un’altra città, per trovare una casa e un lavoro e ripartire da zero. Qui, i due conoscono Edward Springrove, un collega di Owen, di cui Cytherea si innamora. Dopo vari tentativi andati a vuoto, la ricerca di un lavoro va a buon fine, e la protagonista viene assunta come dama di compagnia presso una ricca signora, Miss Adclyffe, il cui passato, si scoprirà poi, è legato romanticamente a quello della famiglia Graye. Tra le due donne si stabilisce un rapporto a metà strada fra l’affetto, la protezione, la devozione e la gratitudine reciproca. Proprio durante il soggiorno in casa della signora, Cytherea viene a sapere che non lontano da lì vive la famiglia del suo amato Edward, che però è già promesso a un’altra donna. Delusa e sconcertata, la protagonista decide di dimenticarlo: è a questo punto che entra in scena Manston, personaggio misterioso inspiegabilmente protetto e spalleggiato da Miss Adclyffe, il quale intraprende nei confronti della ragazza un lungo e bizzarro corteggiamento.
L’intreccio narrativo, finora concentrato sul ritratto dei personaggi, si fa da qui in poi vivace e ricco di colpi di scena: incendi, fughe nella notte, inganni, suspense, persino un omicidio, fino alla conclusione, degna della migliore tradizione dei “sensation novels”, cui Hardy si ispirò per costruire questo suo primo romanzo, affermandosi subito come una delle voci più brillanti della narrativa inglese.
«Hardy eguaglia scrittori come Shakespeare, Sofocle e Tolstoj per la capacità di inserire i piccoli gesti dei suoi protagonisti all’interno del grande disegno della natura».
D.H. Lawrence
«È innegabile l’abilità di Hardy – l’abilità del vero romanziere – di farci credere che i suoi personaggi siano persone come noi, guidate dalle proprie passioni e idiosincrasie; al contempo – e questo è il dono del poeta – in loro vi è un qualcosa di simbolico che ci accomuna tutti».
Virginia Woolf
Far From The Maddening Crowd
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy's classic tale "Far From The Maddeing Crowd" tells the story of an independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene who has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community.
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141439655
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.
Giuda l'oscuro
Thomas Hardy
Un'edizione copertura alternativa per questo ISBN può essere trovato qui.
In 1895 Hardy's final novel, the great tale of Jude The Obscure, sent shockwaves of indignation rolling across Victorian England. Hardy had dared to write frankly about sexuality and to indict the institutions of marriage, education, and religion. But he had, in fact, created a deeply moral work. The stonemason Jude Fawley is a dreamer; his is a tragedy of unfulfilled aims. With his tantalizing cousin Sue Bridehead, the last and most extraordinary of Hardy's heroines, Jude takes on the world and discovers, tragically, its brutal indifference. The most powerful expression of Hardy's philosophy, and a profound exploration of man's essential loneliness, Jude The Obscure is a great and beautiful book. 'His style touches sublimity.'�T.S. Eliot
Jude, o Obscuro
Thomas Hardy
Ansioso para escapar das amarras de sua classe social, Jude Fawley sonha em um dia se tornar professor universitário . Apesar do empenho nos estudos de letras clássicas, o entalhador se vê cada vez mais sufocado pela pobreza e pelo casamento infeliz com Arabella Donn, filha de um criador de porcos.
É quando finalmente conhece Sue Bridehead, prima distante e nada convencional, que Jude vislumbra uma chance de felicidade. Em uma sociedade tão pouco favorável a mudanças como a do sul da Inglaterra em meados do século XIX, o amor deles logo se transforma em uma sentença.
Jude, o obscuro, o último ramcne de Hardy, é considerado o trabalho mais corajoso e novador do escritor. Originalmente publicado em fascículos mensais, cada novo capítulo trazia uma onda de choque aos leitores vitorianos. como em outras obras do autor, é possível perceber o quanto a sociedade é cure com aqueles que desafiam suas tradições.
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking 'New Woman'.
Lejos del mundanal ruido
Thomas Hardy
Con Lejos del mundanal ruido (1874), reeditada ahora después de mucho tiempo en una nueva traducción, Thomas Hardy alcanzó su primer gran éxito, y también la que quizá sea la más amable de sus obras maestras. El autor nos hace un formidable retrato de una heroína victoriana que sabe que lo dificil para una mujer definir sus sentimientos en un lenguaje creado principalmente por el hombre para expresar los suyos. De carácter fuerte e independiente, esta heroína, joven propietaria de la mayor granja de su localidad, está en situación de elegir entre los tres pretendientes que la rondan. Al elegir descubrirá en poco tiempo que ha renunciado la la sencillez de la vida de soltera para convertirse en la humilde mitad de un indiferente todo matrimonial.
Life's Little Ironies
Thomas Hardy
The phrase `life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined by Hardy as the title for this, his third volume of short stories. While the tales and sketches reflect many of the strengths and themes of the great novels, they are powerful works in their own right. Unified by his quintessential irony, strong visual sense, and engaging characters, they deal with the tragic and the humorous, the metaphysical and the magical. The collection displays the whole range of Hardy's art as a writer of fiction, from fantasy to uncompromising realism, and from the loving re-creation of a vanished rural world to the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life.
Los habitantes del bosque
Thomas Hardy
Grace Melbury, la preciosa y delicada hija de un próspero maderero que haría cualquier cosa por ella, regresa al pequeño pueblo de su infancia después de haber recibido una refinada educación lejos de allí. Su reencuentro con quien siempre estuvo destinado a ser su marido, Giles Winterborne, les revela a los dos que, pese a todo lo que él pueda amarla, no está a la altura de sus nuevas expectativas sociales y, en cambio, sí lo está el nuevo médico de la región, el aristocrático Edred Fitzpiers, que aparece rodeado de libros y de un raro halo de misterio. La relación que se establece entre los tres se verá salpicada de malentendidos y traiciones, pero también de una devoción y una lealtad que conducirán a un desenlace extraordinario.
Los habitantes del bosque, inédita hasta el momento en castellano, es una de las novelas más brillantes, controvertidas y representativas de la narrativa de Thomas Hardy, quien siempre la consideró su obra favorita. Sus evocadores paisajes y sus personajes llenos de fuerza hacen de Los habitantes del bosque una obra indispensable.
Mayor of Casterbridge (Wordsworth Classics)
Thomas Hardy
Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character'. The fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force, and features some of the author's most striking episodes and brilliant passages of description.
Nel bosco
Thomas Hardy
Consulta la Listopia per la collezione completa.
Nuestras Hazañas en la Cueva
Thomas Hardy
Mediados del siglo XIX. Un chico de trece años, Leonard, cuenta lo sucedido durante un verano que pasó en West Poley. Un primo suyo, Steve, dos años mayor, le convence de que le acompañe a explorar las cuevas que horadan los montes Mendip. Por ellas transcurre una corriente de agua que los chicos cambian de curso. Al volver al pueblo descubren que han dejado a su pueblo sin agua..., y que se la han proporcionado a East Poley. Y las cosas se complicarán más todavía.
On the Western Circuit
Thomas Hardy
When the unhappily married Mrs. Harnham agrees to help her young protegee Anna write to her lover, she begins the development of an ill-fated misunderstanding.
Remedios desesperados
Thomas Hardy
Cytherea Graye es una joven criada que descubre que su enamorado, Edward, está prometido con otra, por lo que decide aceptar la petición de matrimonio del oscuro y seductor Aeneas Manston. Para su horror, Cytherea descubrirá que su marido había asesinado a su primera esposa. Después de no pocas peripecias, equívocos y buenas dosis de peligro, y con la ayuda de su extravagante patrona, la señorita Aldclyffe, Cytherea queda libre para casarse con su verdadero amor. Un delicioso retrato de la campiña inglesa, escrito a la manera de Wilkie Collins, con las sutiles pinceladas sexuales que caracterizan la prosa de Hardy.
Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy's most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moon where proud Eustacia fervently awaits a clandestine meeting with her lover, Damon Wildeve. But Eustacia's dreams of escape are not to be realized--neither Wildeve nor the retuming native Clym Yeobright can bring her salvation. Injured by forces beyond their control, Hardy's characters struggle vainly in the net of destiny. In the end, only the face of the lonely heath remains untouched by fate in this masterpiece of tragic passion, a tale that perfectly epitomizes the author's own unique and melancholy genius.
Selected Poems
Thomas Hardy
A selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber.At once a voice arose amongThe bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensongOf joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,In blast-beruffled plume,Had chosen thus to fling his soulUpon the growing gloom . . .-The Darkling Thrush
Tessa d'Urberville
Thomas Hardy
Ekskluzywna edycja oprawiona w delikatną gładką tkaninę o właściwościach jedwabiu.
Poruszająca historia miłości, zdrady oraz zbrodni w połączeniu z realiami wiejskiego życia i krytyką hipokryzji dziewiętnastowiecznego angielskiego społeczeństwa.
Opowieść o losach młodziutkiej Tessy Durbeyfield, mieszkającej wraz z rodziną na prowincji. Dziewczyna wyróżnia się w swoim otoczeniu urodą, inteligencją i rozsądkiem. Pewnego dnia jej ojciec, wędrowny handlarz, leń i pijaczyna, dowiaduje się od pastora zajmującego się heraldyką, że Durbeyfieldowie wywodzą się ze starego rycerskiego rodu d'Urberville'ów. Pod wpływem tego wydarzenia rodzice Tessy postanawiają wysłać córkę do mieszkających w pobliżu rzekomych krewnych, którzy noszą to samo nazwisko. Dla dziewczyny zamiast szansy wyrwania się z biednego środowiska, to początek burzliwego i przede wszystkim niezwykle smutnego życia odkąd jej "kuzyn" zaczyna uporczywie się do niej zalecać. Dla Tessy nadejdą jeszcze dobre dni, czeka ją prawdziwa miłość, ale nad jej losem ciąży fatum...
Tess dei d'Urberville
Thomas Hardy
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Semplice come una ballata popolare, la storia di Tess dei d'Uberville è in realtà percorsa da una vena di rara potenza tragica. Dopo essere stata sedotta da Alec d'Uberville, Tess sposa il figlio di un pastore, Angel Clare, ma quando, la notte stessa delle nozze, gli rivela la propria colpa, questi la abbandona. Sola, provata da stenti e disgrazie, la donna è allora costretta ad accettare nuovamente la protezione di Alec. Allorché Angel, pentito della durezza usata nei confronti della propria sposa, la cerca in vista di una riconciliazione, Tess, terrorizzata all'idea di non riuscire ad allontanarlo dalla sua vita, uccide Alec. Sullo sfondo degli struggenti paesaggi del Dorset, il romanzo sembra riassumere in sé i temi fondamentali della narrativa di Thomas Hardy: la tragica incoscienza di molti suoi personaggi, il loro fatalismo di fronte agli eventi, il senso incombente della catastrofe, la presenza magica della natura. Quel sentimento della vita, insomma, che fa di Hardy, oltre che il "maggior poeta di lingua inglese tra Ottocento e Novecento", come ha scritto nella sua introduzione al libro Carlo Cassola, un vero e proprio "scrittore esistenziale".
Tess d'Uberville (French Edition)
Thomas Hardy
Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d'Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune.
Tess d'Urberville
Thomas Hardy
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 jeune fille aura le tort de ne pas vouloir dissimuler. Dès lors, son destin est une descente aux enfers de la honte et de la déchéance.
Tess of the d Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice. Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as "a pure woman," caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Alternate covers can be found here and here.
When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her ‘cousin’ Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Annotated Edition (Evergreens)
Thomas Hardy
After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d'Urbervilles, as she believes that she is also descended from their ancient Norman lineage and that they can rescue her family from indigence. Unfortunately she is taken under the wing of the immoral libertine scion Alec d'Urberville, who seduces and scorns her. While she attempts to rebuild her life, she falls in love with the virtuous farmer Angel Clare and must find a way to defeat the demons of her past. Controversial when it was first published for challenging Victorian morals, Tess of the d'Urbervilles has become Thomas Hardy's most popular novel, catching the imaginations of generations of readers with its high drama, endearing heroine and powerful evocations of the southern English countryside.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Everyman's Library)
Thomas Hardy
Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy’s early work, Tess of the D’Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love.
Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina, has achieved classic stature.
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The Complete Poems
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy's first love was always poetry. It was not until 1898, when he was fifty-eight years old, having already established his reputation with fourteen novels and over forty short stories, that his first book of poetry, Wessex Poems was published. For the final thirty years of his life he abandoned fiction and devoted himself entirely to poetry. It is a tribute to his remarkable powers of creativity that he is now not only regarded as one of the most important English novelists but is also recognised as a poet of major stature and ever increasing popularity. The Complete Poems , edited by James Gibson, includes all of Hardy's prolific output of more than nine hundred poems, complemented by a detailed notes section. Collected in this single volume are his eight books of verse, all the uncollected poems, 'Domicilium' and the songs from The Dynasts. This new edition contains an additional poem, The Sound of Her.
The Hand of Ethelberta
Thomas Hardy
Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London with her family acting incognito as her servants. Turning the male-dominated literary world to her advantage, she happily exploits the attentions of four very different suitors. Will she bestow her hand upon the richest of them, or on the man she loves? Ethelberta Petherwin, alias Berta Chickerel, moves with easy grace between her multiple identities, cleverly managing a tissue of lies to aid her meteoric rise. In "The Hand of Ethelberta" (1876), Hardy drew on conventions of popular romances, illustrated weeklies, plays, fashion plates, and even his wife's diary in this comic story of a woman in control of her destiny.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
Librarian note: The same ISBN is now being used here with a new cover.
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled ‘A Story of a Man of Character’, Hardy’s powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets her heart on marrying him, believing that through him she can leave rural life and find fulfilment elsewhere. But she is to be disappointed, for Clym has dreams of his own, and they have little in common with Eustacia’s. Their unhappy marriage causes havoc in the lives of those close to them, in particular Damon Wildeve, Eustacia’s former lover, Clym’s mother and his cousin Thomasin. The Return of the Native illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies.
The Return of the Native: Includes Ebook
Thomas Hardy
One of Thomas Hardy's classic statements about modern love, courtship, and marriage, The Return of the Native is set in the pastoral village of Egdon Heath. The fiery Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate love, believes that her escape from Egdon lies in her marriage to Clym Yeobright, the returning "native," home from Paris and discontented with his work there. Clym wishes to remain in Egdon, however-a desire that sets him in opposition to his wife and brings them both to despair. Surrounding them are Clym's mother, who is strongly opposed to his marriage; Damon Wildeve, who is in love with Eustacia but married to Clym's cousin Thomasin; and the oddly ambiguous observer Diggory Venn, whose frustrated love for Thomasin turns him into either a guardian angel or a jealous manipulator-or perhaps both. This stew of curdled love and conflicting emotions can only boil over into tragedy, and the book's darkly ironic ending marks it as both a classically Victorian novel and a forerunner of the modernist fiction that followed it.
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
Thomas Hardy
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid is drenched in mystery and vagueness. Harper's wrote that in this novel, ""light and shade are disposed with the powerful effects of which he is so skillful a master."
The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing
Thomas Hardy
Hardy's short story, one of his earliest, first appeared in Father Christmas published by The Illustrated London News in 1877. The story was not included in any of the short story collections he subsequently published.
Audiobook from The Classic Tales Podcast narrated by B.J. Harrison
123helpme.com: "There is one main character in this story, Hubert. We barely get any description of the physical features of Hubert; however what we do find out is: he is a fourteen year old boy, a ‘yeoman’s son’ with a horse named Jerry. All of them resided in Wessex.
A 687 word short story.
The Three Strangers
Thomas Hardy
It is during a stormy evening in March, in the third decade of the '700 that Thomas Hardy’s The Three Strangers begins. An English clergyman and his family are gathered together with some friends in their cottage, Higher Crowstairs, to celebrate the baptism of one of their daughters. During the evening three strangers knock on the door asking for shelter and they will eventually join the party, creating havoc and misunderstanding that will be resolved only at the end of the story.
The Well-Beloved
Thomas Hardy
Introduction and Notes by Jane Thomas, University of Hull.
The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary Well-Beloved - in stone, just as he tries to find her in the flesh.
Powerful symbolism marks this romantic fantasy that Hardy has grounded firmly in reality with a characteristically authentic rendering of location, the Isle of Slingers, or Portland as we know it. Overt exploration of the relationship between erotic fascination and creativity makes this novel a nineteenth-century landmark in the persistent debate about art, aesthetics and gender.
This volume breaks new ground by including in full the1892 serialised version of the novel – The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved.
The Withered Arm
Thomas Hardy
In southern England, a man and a woman's summer love affair leads to an illegitimate child, broken promises, unfulfilled desires, and timeless regrets.
The Woman Much Missed
Thomas Hardy
'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'
After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928).
Hardy's works available in Penguin Classics are A Laodicean, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Desperate Remedies, Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, Selected Poems, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales, The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories, The Hand of Ethelberta, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and The Well-beloved, The Return of the Native, The Trumpet-Major, The Withered Arm and Other Stories, The Woodlanders, Two on a Tower and Under the Greenwood Tree.
The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy
With an Introduction and Notes by Phillip Mallett, Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews.
Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a moving tale that has vibrant characters, many humorous moments and genuine pathos coupled with tragic irony, Hardy eschews a happy ending.
With characteristic derision, he exposes the cruel indifference of the archaic legal system off his day, and shows the tragic consequences of untimely adherence to futile social and religious proprieties
Thomas Hardy: Poems Selected by Tom Paulin (Poet to Poet)
Thomas Hardy
In this series a contemporary poet selects and introduces another poet of a different generation whom they have particularly admired. This selection of Thomas Hardy poems are selected by Tom Paulin.
Trumpet Major, The (wordsworth Classics)
Thomas Hardy
Excellent Book
Two on a Tower
Thomas Hardy
'Then they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet to star, from single stars to double stars, from double to coloured stars...'
Hardy's atmospheric, moving story of star-crossed lovers shows human beings at the mercy of forces far beyond their control, setting a tragic drama of human passion and conflict against a background of vast stellar space and scientific discovery. Two on a Tower tells the story of Lady Constantine, who breaks all the rules of decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. Together, in an ancient monument converted into an astronomical observation tower, they create their own private universe - until the pressures of the outside world threaten to destroy it.
Under the Greenwood Tree
Thomas Hardy
Under the Greenwood Tree is the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new school mistress, Fancy Day. A pleasant romantic tale set in the Victorian era, Under the Greenwood Tree is one of Thomas Hardy's most gentle and pastoral novels.
Unexpected Elegies: "Poems of 1912-13" and Other Poems About Emma
Thomas Hardy
When Emma Hardy died in 1912, her husband, the great novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, began to write “Poems of 1912–13,” a series of elegies that are among the most moving in the English language. Although the couple had been estranged for years, after her death Hardy fell under Emma’s spell again and was enthralled by her as he hadn’t been in decades. He transformed his hopelessly revived love into poetry, pouring out his yearning and passionate attachment to a love forever lost.
“Poems of 1912–13” and the other elegies about Emma included in this volume have been read and discussed by poets and scholars for almost a century but never collected in their own book. Their accessibility, emotional power, and focus on the mysterious complexities of marriage make them of interest to a broad public. Readers will cherish this beautifully produced, illustrated volume of poetical testaments to enduring love.
Unos ojos azules
Thomas Hardy
Una obra sobre conflictos de clase que constituye una indagación en la feminidad.
Unos ojos azules se desarrolla en torno a la consideración, a menudo falsa, que los hombres tienen de las mujeres. Elfride, una bella joven de ojos azules, es la hija del rector de Endelstow, un remoto enclave de Cornualles. Elfride pronto se verá atrapada entre dos hombres, el joven arquitecto Stephen Smith y un viejo hombre de letras, Henry Knight, que arruinaran su amistad por la chica. A lo largo de la novela, surgen asuntos como las relaciones sentimentales entre clases sociales diferentes, la naturaleza del amor o la fatalidad del deseo.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) fue un novelista y poeta inglés representante del realismo tardodecimonónico. Entre sus obras más importantes cabe destacar: Tess, la de los d�Uberville, El alcalde de Casterbridge y Jude el oscuro.
Traducción de Damián Alou
Via dalla pazza folla
Thomas Hardy
Clicca qui per l'edizione "Storie senza tempo".
Una travolgente storia d’amore: il primo grande successo di uno dei massimi esponenti del romanzo vittoriano. Un classico intramontabile. Al decimo posto nella lista delle migliori storie d’amore di tutti i tempi secondo «The Guardian». Un’attenta analisi della condizione umana: perché è nella natura, dentro la natura, via dalla pazza folla appunto, che l’essere umano riesce a mettere a nudo la sua vera anima. Il romanzo narra le appassionanti vicende di Gabriel Oak, un giovane pastore con cui il lettore non può fare a meno di empatizzare. Innamorato dell’affascinante Bathsheba, bellezza orgogliosa e nullatenente, le chiede di sposarlo ma lei lo rifiuta. Poco dopo la situazione si ribalta: mentre lei eredita dallo zio una fattoria, lui perde tutti i suoi averi a causa di un incidente capitato al suo gregge. Si ritrova così costretto a chiederle lavoro e a contendersi le sue attenzioni con altri due uomini. Alla fine riuscirà a sposarla: l’epilogo più desiderato dai lettori. Fra le attente descrizioni bucoliche e la raffinatezza di uno stile ricercato e ricco, Hardy non annoia mai.
Wessex Tales
Thomas Hardy
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy. Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy to realism and from tragedy to comedy.
Woman Much Missed
Thomas Hardy
'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'
After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928).
Hardy's works available in Penguin Classics are A Laodicean, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Desperate Remedies, Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, Selected Poems, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales, The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories, The Hand of Ethelberta, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and The Well-beloved, The Return of the Native, The Trumpet-Major, The Withered Arm and Other Stories, The Woodlanders, Two on a Tower and Under the Greenwood Tree.
Z dala od zgiełku
Thomas Hardy
Klasyczna brytyjska powieść o sile miłości i namiętności, na której podstawie powstał wzruszający film z Carey Mulligan i Tomem Sturridge’em.
Prowincja dziewiętnastowiecznej Anglii. Betsaba Everdene dziedziczy po wuju farmę. Postanawia sama zająć się gospodarstwem, nie czekając na księcia z bajki. Jej uroda oraz niezależność działają jednak na mężczyzn jak magnez. O względy dziewczyny zabiega trzech dżentelmenów, każdy o silnej osobowości. Jest wśród nich Gabriel Oak – poczciwy farmer, właściciel ziemski William Boldwood oraz Francis Troy – sierżant królewskich dragonów, kobieciarz i hulaka.
Nieoczywiste wybory, sercowe rozterki oraz pomyłki losu – życie niesie wiele niespodzianek, ale Betsaba zrobi wszystko, żeby się odnaleźć w świecie rządzonym przez mężczyzn.
Джуд Непримітний (Ukrainian Edition)
Thomas Hardy
Дія роману розгортається у вигаданій місцевості на південному заході Англії. Молодий Джуд, муляр з провінційного містечка, мріє стати вченим, але одружується з дівчиною, яка давно його домагається. Однак цей шлюб незабаром розпадається, і герой закохується в свою кузину — дивну двостатеву істоту, від якого герой, проте, має двох дітей. Але потім в життя героїв вторгається моторошна трагедія, що руйнує життя сім ’ї і відносини героїв дощенту.
جود گمنام
Thomas Hardy
Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d'Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune.
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