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Far from the Maddening Crowd
 

Far from the Maddening Crowd

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Far from the Maddening Crowd
After an unfortunate marriage to Sergeant Troy and an affair with Farmer Boldwood, Bathsheba Everdene finally becomes the wife of the man who has always loved her, in an authoritative edition of the uncensored 1912 text. Reprint.

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
 

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Forced by her parents' ambitions among her wealthy D'Urberville 'cousins, ' Tess Durbeyfield attracts the unscrupulous Alec. Seduced and discarded, she finds work as a milkmaid, and her steadfast integrity is finally rewarded by the love of Angle Clare.

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
 

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller,' and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men—Alec d'Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who seduces her in a lonely wood, and Angel Clare, her provincial, moralistic, and unforgiving husband—Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act.

'Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination,' said Irving Howe. 'In Tess he stakes everything on his sensuous apprehension of a young woman's life, a girl who is at once a simple milkmaid and an archetype of feminine strength. . . . Tess is that rare creature in literature: goodness made interesting.'

Now Tess of the d'Urbervilles has been brought to television in a magnificent new co-production from A&E Network and London Weekend Television. Justine Waddell (Anna Karenina) stars as the tragic heroine, Tess; Oliver Milburn (Chandler & Co.) is Angel Clare; and Jason Flemyng is Alec d'Urberville. The cast also includes John McEnery (Black Beauty) as Jack Durbeyfield and Lesley Dunlop (The Elephant Man) as Joan Durbeyfield. Tess of the d'Urbervilles is directed by Ian Sharp and produced by Sarah Wilson, with a screenplay by Ted Whitehead; it was filmed in Hardy country, the beautiful English countryside in Dorset where Thomas Hardy set his novels.

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Jude the Obscure
 

Jude the Obscure

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Jude the Obscure
Now considered his best work, Thomas Hardy's novel about a stonemason excluded from the privileged world of learning by class, and his relationship with an emancipated woman, scandalized the late Victorian establishment and marked the end of his career as a novelist. This new Penguin Classics edition reprints the original 1895 edition and includes Hardy's "Postscript" of 1912.

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The Mayor of Casterbridge
 

The Mayor of Casterbridge

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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Introduction by Craig Raine

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
 

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Introduction by Patricia Ingham

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Jude the Obscure
 

Jude the Obscure

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Jude the Obscure
Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and its unflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a storm of controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly in response, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writing altogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. Though we have come a long way in our social attitudes in the ensuing century, nothing about Hardy's masterpiece has lost its power to shock us and disturb our dreams.

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The Mayor of Casterbridge
 

The Mayor of Casterbridge

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The Mayor of Casterbridge
The text presented in this volume is that of the Wessex Edition of 1912, which was revised and corrected by Hardy. It has been collated with the Mellstock Edition of 1920, for which Hardy submitted his final corrections. The author's brief Preface is also included. "Backgrounds" includes selections from Hardy's autobiography relevant to the novel; Christine Winfield's discussion of the manuscript; Richard Little Purdy's outline of the novel's publication history; and Carl J. Weber's essay on its reception, which is also presented firsthand through a sampling of contemporary reviews. "Criticism" presents a range of critical writings on Hardy and The Mayor of Casterbridge.

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The Mayor of Casterbridge
 

The Mayor of Casterbridge

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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Tragic consequences result from a drunken Michael Herchard's impetuous sale of his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a country fair. Reissue.

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Far from the Madding Crowd
 

Far from the Madding Crowd

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Far from the Madding Crowd
"It was in the chapters of FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD...that I first ventured to adopt the word 'Wessex'," wrote Thomas Hardy and so described the birth of that fictional region in the southwest of England where the hauntingly familiar names--Egdon Heath, Christminster, Casterbridge--have come to evoke the melancholy grandeur of Hardy's world. The rural sheep-raising country of this early novel escapes the gloom that permeates the landscape and the characters of such later tragedies as JUDE THE OBSCURE and TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES. But the relentless accidents of an indifferent nature, combined with the ill-fated passions of beautiful Bathsheba Everdene and her lovers, create the thwarted purposes and shattering griefs that make this a characteristically powerful Hardy novel.
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Jude
 

Jude

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Jude
Novel tracing Jude Fawley's life from his aspirations of intellectual freedom to his early death.
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