HarperCollins is proud to present one of Hardy's most popular novels, and now a major film, from our range of timeless literary classics.‘I shall do one thing in this life – one thing certain – that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die’Independent and spirited, Bathsheba Everdene owns the hearts of three men. Striving to win her love in different ways, their relationships with Bathsheba complicate her life in bucolic Wessex – and cast shadows over...

'The first of Hardy's great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his best fiction is remembered' Margaret DrabbleThomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships. Its heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, takes up her position as a farmer on a large estate, where her confident presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farm...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete novels of Thoma...

From the author of The Mayor of Casterbridge, this novel follows a woman torn between a wealthy, unfaithful husband and the humble woodsman she truly loves.As a young woman in a small village, Grace Melbury expects to one day marry her sweetheart, Giles. But her ambitious father has decided that her upbringing would be wasted on such a man, and pressures her to wed the doctor Fitzpiers instead.It soon becomes clear that Fitzpiers has little more to...

Avec les Editions MARQUES, venez découvrir ou redécouvrir les grands classiques optimisés pour vos liseuses et applications électroniques. Une publication de qualité par des professionnels de l'édition.Les éditions MARQUES présentent " Tess d’Urberville ", de Thomas HARDY, édité en texte intégral.Présentation de l'éditeurMax du Veuzit est le nom de plume de Alphonsine Zéphirine Vavasseur, n...

Tess dei D’Ubervilles è un romanzo scritto da Thomas Hardy nel 1891, la potenza tragica dell’intreccio narrativo permette allo scrittore di esprimere al meglio uno dei temi fondamentali della sua poetica: la maligna ironia del fato. Nel romanzo agiscono forze diverse e variamente combinate, natura e corruzione, necessità elementari e impulsi sofisticati, che trasformano, sconvolgono e, alla fine, distruggono la protagonista, una ragazza di campagna non colta, ma intelligente e sensibile.

UNA DONNA AFFASCINANTE E CORAGGIOSATRE UOMINI CHE SI CONTENDONO IL SUO CUOREIl romanzo da cui è tratto il film del 2015 diretto da Thomas Vinterberg con Carey Mulligan e Matthias Schoenaerts.Hardy è un meraviglioso creatore di figure femminili, e Batsceba, la protagonista di «Via dalla pazza folla», è la prima e la più incantevole di esse. Irrequieta e indipendente, intelligente e svagata al tempo stesso, crede di raggiungere una com...

This file includes the complete text of: Desperate Remedies, 1871; Under the Greenwood Tree, 1872; A Pair of Blue Eyes, 1873; Far From the Madding Crowd, 1874; The Hand of Ethelberta, 1876; The Return of the Native, 1878; Wessex Tales, 1879; The Trumpet-Major, 1880; A Laodicean, 1881; Two on a Tower, 1882; The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid, 1883; A Changed Man and Other Tales, 1885; The Mayor of Casterbridge, 1886; The Woodlanders, 1887; Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 1891; A Group of Nobl...

Tess d'UbervilleThomas HardyCet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire.Pour avoir découvert qu'il est le descendant de l'illustre lignée des chevaliers d'Urberville, John Durbeyfield se pique de noblesse et envoie sa fille Tess entre les griffes d'un lointain cousin et véritable séducteur. La jeune fille a plus d'éducation et d'honnêteté que ses p...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!'Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world, Tess of the D'Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she attempts to escape the poverty of her background, seeking wealth by claiming connection with the...

When Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Ubervilles was released it was regarded as quite racy - as it challenged the sexual values of the time. Follow the story of Tess as she discovers she is part of a noble Norman family, and is thrown into a life of social and sexual discovery.

Thomas Hardy’s first literary masterpiece, Far From the Madding Crowd is the story of free-spirited Bathsheba Everdene, whose bold independence attracts the attention of three suitors: the frugal shepherd Gabriel Oak, the lonely farmer William Boldwood, and the dashing young soldier Sergeant Francis Troy. Each man unsettles Bathsheba’s life in some way, complicating her ideas of courtship and passion, and threatening to upset her quiet community.HarperPerennialClassics bri...