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Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute'. Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Bold ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
$13.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classy Classics
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 con ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
$13.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Thomas Hardy's last novel, "Jude the Obscure" is a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with an introduction by Dennis Taylor in "Penguin Classics". Jude Fawley's hopes of an education at Christminster University are dashed when he is trapped into marrying the wild, earthy ...Show more
Jude the Obscure (Penguin English Library) by Thomas Hardy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy. 'As you got older, ...you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, ...Show more
Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'Here - I am waiting to know about this offer of mine. The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' 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 ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
$19.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Tess of the d'Urbervilles ,A Pure Woman Faithfully PresentedThomas Hardy"Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to t ...Show more
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
$13.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classy Classics
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 rev ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
A haunting study of guilt and lost love in "Penguin Classics", Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is edited with an introduction and notes by Keith Wilson. 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 foll ...Show more
The Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Claire Tomalin (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A new selection of Hardy's love poems. Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet.
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'Do I desire unreasonably much in wanting what is called life - music, poetry, passion, war, and all the beating and pulsing that is going on in the great arteries of the world?' Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of ...Show more
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