Thomas Hardy. - Libros y biografía

Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London with her family acting incognito as her servants. Turning...

'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...

'Vital, passionate, spirited - from the moment Bathsheba appears she is beguiling' IndependentWhen Bathsheba Everdean arrives in the small village of Weatherbury she captures the heart of three very different...

"I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine ... I long for only one...

'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...

Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill owned by Miller Loveday, has three suitors: the local squire's nephew Festus and the miller's two sons, Robert and John. While Festus' aggressive...

'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...

Tout rapproche Lady Viviette, dont le mari a disparu en Afrique depuis des années, et le tout jeune Swithin, promis à une belle carrière d’astronome. Mais s’il y a des unions écrites dans les étoiles,...

"Loin de la foule déchaînée" commence la série de romans les plus typiques de Thomas Hardy, à laquelle appartiennent entre autres "Tess d’Urberville" et "Jude l’obscur". Dans la campagne anglaise de l’époque...

Thomas Hardy saw himself, first and foremost, as a poet, and he wrote poetry throughout his prolific and acclaimed novel-writing years before announcing in 1896 that he would no longer write novels, much...

'The greatest tragic writer among the English novelists' Virginia WoolfWith its depiction of the wronged 'pure woman' Tess and its powerful criticism of Victorian hypocrisy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles...

Dans le comté rural du Wessex, Gabriel Oak demande en mariage la jolie Bethsabée Everdene, offrant à cette orpheline désargentée une situation confortable et la promesse d’une vie heureuse. Farouchement...

Gabriel Oak, jeune paysan du Wessex, est devenu propriétaire d'une bergerie. Il s'éprend de Barbara Everdene, venue s'installer au pays avec sa tante. Mais la belle repousse ses avances avec hauteur....

La jolie Tess est d’une fraîcheur à faire chavirer tous les cœurs. Surtout celui de son prétendu cousin, Alec. Mais l’odieux personnage n’est qu’un imposteur… et un profiteur ! Lorsqu’il séduit la jeune...

Michael Henchard est un jeune saisonnier qui vit avec sa femme, Susan, et sa fille, Elizabeth-Jane, dans un village du Wessex.Un jour, sous l'empire de l'alcool, après une violente dispute avec sa femme,...

In "Poems of the Past and the Present," Thomas Hardy offers a compelling juxtaposition of memory and contemporary experience, encapsulating the melancholic beauty and profound insights that characterize...

Thomas Hardy's "A Pair of Blue Eyes" is a seminal exploration of love and societal constraints set against the stunning backdrop of rural England. Employing a naturalistic literary style, Hardy intricately...

Thomas Hardy's "The Woodlanders" masterfully weaves a tale of love, nature, and the constraints imposed by society in the fictional village of Hintock. The novel is notable for its rich, evocative prose...

Set against the rugged backdrop of Dorset's Egdon Heath, Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native" is a poignant exploration of character, fate, and the clash between personal ambitions and the inexorable...

Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native" is a masterful exploration of the complexities of human desire set against the evocative backdrop of Egdon Heath. Written in 1878, this novel employs Hardy's...

Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. When the beautiful...

Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism,...

"Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women... O ye men, how can it be but women should...

The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge...

British novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement. He captured the epoch just before the railways and the industrial revolution changed the English countryside. His works are pessimistic...

L'histoire se déroule dans une région du Sud-Ouest de l'Angleterre, appelée Wessex. Jude Fawley, jeune orphelin campagnard, rêve de devenir aussi savant que son ancien maître d'école, Richard Phillotson....

Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. When the beautiful...

British novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement. He captured the epoch just before the railways and the industrial revolution changed the English countryside. His works are pessimistic...

A Changed Man and Other Tales is a collection of twelve tales written by Thomas Hardy. The collection was originally published in book form in 1913,[1] although all of the tales had been previously published...

Tess is just a humble milkmaid when the local landowner has his wicked way. Her new beau, the smarmy Angel Clare, is none too pleased when he finds out she's already been deflowered. What is a girl to...