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Penguin Readers 4: Far from the Madding Crowd
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 72 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-17
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Gabriel Oak is an honest, hard-working young farmer, who falls in love with the beautiful and independent Bathsheba Everdene. After a tragic accident, Gabriel loses his farm. Bathsheba, on the other hand, becomes rich. Is there any hope for Gabriel?
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The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2008 Страниц: 960 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20102010-05-12
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Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary stamina and a consistent individuality of style and vision made him a survivor, immune to literary fashion. At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did, even in his own lifetime. He is now recognised not only as a great poet, but as one who is widely loved. He speaks with directness, humanity and humour to scholarly or ordinary readers alike.
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1993 Страниц: 362 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20091994-06-28
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«Far from the Madding Crowd» is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was '...the past was yesterday; never, the day after'. And lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood, whose love fills him with '...a fearful sense of exposure', when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba. The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods.»
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Jude the Obscure
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20091997-07-24
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Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair.
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Life's Little Ironies
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1996 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20091999-09-12
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The proverbial phrase ‘life’s little ironies’ was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal of the quaint lore of Wessex, the ‘Chaucerian’ humour and characterisation, the shrewd and critical psychology, the poignant estimate of human nature and the brooding sense of wonder at the essential mystery of life. The tales which make up Life's Little Ironies tenderly re-create a rapidly vanishing rural world and scrutinise the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life. They share the many concerns of Hardy's last great novels, such as the failure of modern marriage and the insidious effects of social ambition on the family and community life. Ranging widely in length and complexity, they are unified by Hardy's quintessential irony, which embraces both the farcical and the tragic aspects of human existence.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1994 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20091997-09-20
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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.
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 306 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20091997-10-13
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A Pair of Blue Eyes is celebrated for its central scene which shocked and stimulated Victorian readers. Forever after it caused Hardy to be embroiled in arguments concerning the sexual morality of his novels in which he strove to show the stifling effects of social conventions on the human spirit. Rich with biographical echoes, this novel reveals the full emergence of the schematic ironies which characterize Hardy's later great works, and gives a suggestion of the tragic philosophy that came to dominate all he wrote. The loving nature of the heroine, Elfride Swancourt, pervades this novel, which has a singular unpolished charm.
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The Return of the Native
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20092000-08-17
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«The central figure of this novel is the returning «native», Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye. As character after character is driven to self-destruction, the presence of Egdon Heath becomes all-embracing, while Clym becomes a preacher.»
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The Trumpet-Major
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20091998-09-20
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«Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, «The Trumpet Major» is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day, making us feel the impact of historical events on the immemorial local way of life — the glamour of the coming of George III and his soldiery, fears of the press-gang and invasion, and the effect of distant but momentous events like the Battle of Trafalgar. He interweaves a compelling, bitter-sweet romantic love story of the rivalry of two brothers for the hand of the heroine Anne Garland, played out against the loves of a lively gallery of other characters. While there are elements of sadness and even tragedy, «The Trumpet-Major» shows Hardy's skills of story-telling, characterisation and description in a novel of vitality, comedy and warmth.»
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Under the Greenwood Tree
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1994 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20091996-10-13
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«Under the Greenwood Tree» is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy as a writer. However, the novel is not merely a charming rural idyll. The double-plot, in which the love story of Dick Dewey and Fancy Day is inter-related with a tragic chapter in the history of Mellstock Choir, hints at the poignant disappearance of a long-lived and highly-valued traditional way of life.»
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The Well-Beloved
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2000 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20092003-04-17
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«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.»
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Wessex Tales
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20091998-09-27
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«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.»
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The Woodlanders
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1996 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092001-08-24
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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.
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Oxford Bookworms Library 6: Tess of the D'Ubervilles
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 136 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20132009-12-07
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A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker; but she is uneducated and does not know the cruel ways of the world. So, when a rich young man says he loves her, she is careful — but not careful enough. He is persuasive, and she is overwhelmed. It is not her fault, but the world says it is. Her young life is already stained by men's desires, and by death.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 104 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20112012-03-19
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Michael Henchard is a wealthy and respected man, but he has a terrible secret. Twenty years ago, when he was unemployed and penniless, he sold his wife to a sailor. Now she is looking for him again. Why? And what will happen when she finds him?
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Far From the Madding Crowd (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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Gabriel Oak is an honest, hard-working young farmer, who falls in love with the beautiful and independent Bathsheba Everdene. After a tragic accident, Gabriel loses his farm. Bathsheba, on the other hand, becomes rich. Is there any hope for Gabriel?
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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Michael Henchard is a wealthy and respected man, but he has a terrible secret. Twenty years ago, when he was unemployed and penniless, he sold his wife to a sailor. Now she is looking for him again. Why? And what will happen when she finds him?
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1992 Страниц: 360 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20091994-05-25
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«This title includes introduction and notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, «Tess» is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, «A Pure Woman», infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her search for respectability her fortunes fluctuate wildly, and the story assumes the proportions of a Greek tragedy. It explores Tess' relationships with two very different men, her struggle against the social mores of the rural Victorian world which she inhabits and the hypocrisy of the age.»
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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When Tess Durbeyfield is sent by her family to seek out her rich relatives, she soon finds herself pursued and violently seduced by the ruthless Alex D'Urberville. The sad event which follows gives Tess the chance to hide her past and move on. Eventually she falls in love and finds happiness with Angel Clare, a clergyman's son. But Tess's honest nature means she is doomed to never escape her past as events force her to finally take control of her fate.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: CIDEB Год: 2003 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20092005-07-04
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The Durbeyfield family are poor and simple people, but their ancestors were the mighty d’Urbervilles, an ancient and noble family. When the Durbeyfields meet with misfortune, they send their eldest daughter Tess to visit her wealthy cousin and ask for help, but the wealthy cousin has a young son, Alec Stoke-d’Urberville, who finds Tess very attractive…
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