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The Three Strangers was written in the year 1883 by Thomas Hardy. This book is one of the most popular novels of Thomas Hardy, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. In The Trumpet Major, the tale of a woman courted by three competing suitors during the Napoleonic wars, he explores the subversive effects of ordinary human desire and conflicting loyalties on systematized versions of history.

Elfride finds herself caught in a battle between her heart, her mind and the expectations of her parents and society. The novel is notable for the strong parallels to Hardy and his first wife Emma Gifford. When Elfride's father finds that his guest and candidate for his daughter's hand, architect's assistant Stephen Smith, is the son of a mason, he immediately orders him to leave. This was the third of Hardy's novels to be published and the first to bear his name.

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.

Two on a Tower was written in the year 1882 by Thomas Hardy. This book is one of the most popular novels of Thomas Hardy, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

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 singers of the choir--including Dick, his father Reuben Dewy, and grandfather William Dewy--making the rounds in Mellstock village on Christmas Eve. When little band plays at the schoolhouse, young Dick falls for Fancy at first sight. Dick, smitten, seeks to insinuate himself into her life and affections, but Fancy's beauty has gained her other suitors, including a rich farmer and the new vicar at the parish church.

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 some time, her father has made financial sacrifices to give his adored only child a superior education and no longer considers Giles good enough for her. When the new doctor – a well-born and handsome young man named Edred Fitzpiers – takes an interest in Grace, her father does all he can to make Grace forget Giles, and to encourage what he sees as a brilliant match.

Šestnáctiletá Tess je dcerou venkovanů Johna a Joan Durbeyfieldových. Když se její rodiče dozvědí, že jsou spříznění s rodem d'Urbervillů, vyšlou Tess za domnělou příbuznou, aby se u ní přihlásila o finanční pomoc nebo zaměstnání. Citlivá dívka se silnými morálními zásadami však ve světě místo pochopení naráží jen na vypočítavost a pokrytectví. Tragický příběh od anglického spisovatele Thomase Hardyho ve své době vzbudil obrovský rozruch a dnes se řadí mezi nejoblíbenější literární díla z viktoriánské éry.

Šestnáctiletá Tess je dcerou venkovanů Johna a Joan Durbeyfieldových. Když se její rodiče dozvědí, že jsou spříznění s rodem d'Urbervillů, vyšlou Tess za domnělou příbuznou, aby se u ní přihlásila o finanční pomoc nebo zaměstnání. Citlivá dívka se silnými morálními zásadami však ve světě místo pochopení naráží jen na vypočítavost a pokrytectví. Tragický příběh od anglického spisovatele Thomase Hardyho ve své době vzbudil obrovský rozruch a dnes se řadí mezi nejoblíbenější literární díla z viktoriánské éry.

Bathsheba Everdene, miután megörököl egy gazdaságot, úgy dönt, hogy maga irányítja azt. A viktoriánus korban ez meroben szokatlan, nem csoda, hogy Bathshebára sokan felfigyelnek, köztük három olyan férfi is, akiket szinte megigéz a lány elragadó szépsége és eros egyénisége. Az elso közülük a gyakorlatias és szilárd jellemu Gabriel Oak gazda, aki miután elvesztette minden vagyonát, birkapásztornak szegodik Bathseba földjére. A második a szomszéd birtok tulajdonosa, a vagyonos és méltóságteljes William Boldwood. A harmadik pedig egy muvelt, lovagias és fess katona, Francis Troy ormester, aki nagy nocsábász hírében áll. Bathshebának nincs szüksége férjre, anyagi és lelki szempontból is független, azonban mindhárom férfi megérinti valamilyen módon a szívét. A végso döntéshez drámai és sodró események láncolata vezet, melyek mögé Hardy az egykorvolt vidéki élet vonzó képét rajzolja meg, amire azonban már rávetül az iparosodás kíméletlen árnya.A gazdag érzelemvilágú és sokoldalú hosöket felvonultató regényt már több alkalommal is megfilmesítették, legutóbb Carey Mulligan alakította Bathshebát.

Audiobook Winter Words, written by Thomas Hardy. This selection of Hardy’s poetry does full justice to its humanity, integrity, humour and evocative power, ranging from charming anthology pieces such as ‘Weathers’ to the great love poems he wrote after the death of his first wife and the meditations on war and philosophy. The poems – nearly eighty in total – are set in the context of his life and thought, including personal writings by him and those closest to him.

"Barbara of the House of Grebe" is a short story from Thomas Hardy’s collection "A Group of Noble Dames". It is a dark that intertwines madness and desire. Barbara Grebe is already promised to a wealthy lord when she elopes with another young man, Edmond Willowes. He suffers a terrible disfigurement, and the couple’s love begins to falter.

"The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion" is a short story by Thomas Hardy that follows the encounter between a young woman and a homesick soldier. The sparks of passion immediately set their souls on fire, but their love is hampered by social conventions and prejudice. In a direct, almost fatalistic way, Thomas Hardy paints a rather gloomy picture of the social conditions of the time, and how often human relationships fell victim to its whims.

Subtitled ‘A Story of To-day’, A Laodicean occupies a unique place in the Thomas Hardy canon. Departing from pre-industrial Wessex, Hardy brings his themes of social constraint, fate, chance and miscommunication to the very modern world of the 1880s – complete with falsified telegraphs, fake photographs, and perilous train tracks.

Deep in the grounds of Welland House lies an ancient memorial tower, surrounded by a prehistoric wilderness that isolates it from the rest of the land. When one day Viviette Constantine, the wife of the estate’s owner, investigates the tower, she there discovers Swithin St Cleeve, a young astronomer who introduces her to the majesty and wonders of the night sky.

Jocelyn Pierston, a successful sculptor, is helpless in the face of ‘the well-beloved’: the manifestation of perfect womanhood that seems to move like a will-o’-the-wisp from one acquaintance to the next. It shapes his whole life. Where his artistry involves permanence – cold stone objects – his heart is caught by ephemeral beauty.