Thomas - Libros y biografía

The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1876. It was written, in serial form, for the Cornhill Magazine, which was edited by Leslie Stephen, a friend and...

Pubblicato nel 1886 Hardy narra l’ascesa e la caduta di un uomo modesto e comune tormentato dagli errori del proprio passato: ubriaco vendette la moglie Susan e la figlia Elizabeth-Jane a un marinaio....

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...

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...

The novel is set in impoverished rural England, Thomas Hardy's fictional Wessex, during the Long Depression of the 1870s. Tess is the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield, uneducated peasants; however,...

THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks...

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...

More’s “Utopia” was written in Latin, and is in two parts, of which the second, describing the place ([Greek text]—or Nusquama, as he called it sometimes in his letters—“Nowhere”), was probably written...

Thomas Hardy's final novel Jude the Obscure explores notions of class, religion, marriage and modernization through its protagonist Jude Fawley, a working-class man who dreams of being a scholar. Provocative...

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...

"The Three Strangers" is a short story by Thomas Hardy from 1883. The story is a pastoral history told by an omniscient narrator more than 50 years after the event. The sheep-stealer is a kind of folk...

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is the love story between the good shepherd Gabriel Oak and the proud heiress Bathsheba Everdene. Bathsheba scorns Gabriel's first bald proposal, and many years pass,...

Vast gold robberies--a murder of which a nobleman stands accused, with jealousy for the motive--these apparently unrelated mysteries give scope for Cleek's most ingenious solutions.

What makes a legitimate government? Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes is a foundational text of western civilization. The book features one of the earliest examples of social contract theory and is essential...

Eine messerscharfe Analyse über die Gefahr eines ausufernden Überwachungsstaates und was das für jeden von uns bedeuten kann. 65% der Österreicherinnen und Österreicher haben bei einer Umfrage...

Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Written in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political...

Bulfinch's Mythology is a thorough overview of three major groups of mythology, and has long been cited as one of its definitive reference texts. It is broken up into three sections, covering classical...

This work has been recognized as the most influential work of his time. A key part of the book has been devoted to what is now known as the law of the people of the Malthus thorn. This theory suggested...

We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world's business, how they have shaped themselves in the world's history, what ideas men formed of them,...

11 Monate lang ermittelt Kriminalist Jörg Ritter in elf verschiedenen Fällen in Stade und im Alten Land. 11 Mal glaubt ein Täter, schlauer als die Polizei zu sein. 11 spannende Geschichten, in denen...

Uwe, ein blinder Klavierstimmer, möchte seiner Jugendfreundin Meike, die wegen Mitgliedschaft in der DDR-Friedensbewegung in die Bundesrepublik flüchten musste, folgen. Durch das Missgeschick eines anderen...

Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a harrowing critique of social class and the powerlessness of women. Tess, a beautiful young woman, is pushed on her rich "relatives" by her grasping father. When the young...

Die Schriftstellerin Karin Slaughter behauptet, dass insbesondere Frauen an Gewalt interessiert sind. Was ist von dieser Aussage zu halten? Interessieren sich Frauen wirklich stark für Gewalt? Oder will...

This work has been recognized as the most influential work of his time. A key part of the book has been devoted to what is now known as the law of the people of the Malthus thorn. This theory suggested...

A young hay-trusser named Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife, Susan. Spurred by alcohol, he decides to auction off his wife and baby daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, to a sailor, Mr. Newson, for five guineas....

Umbrüche in Osteuropa, Kriege in Ex-Jugoslawien, Binnenmarkt, Euro und der Fall der Grenzen in der Union haben Europa seit 1989 völlig verändert. Mittendrin kämpft Österreich seit dem Beitritt zur EU...

Dip into a classic work of fiction that many critics regard as one of the novels that helped to usher in the modern era of literature. When it was originally published, Thomas Hardy's The Return of the...

In the opening year, 1793, when revolutionary France had beheaded its king, the wrath turned next upon the King of kings, by whose grace every tyrant claimed to reign. But eventualities had brought among...

Pamphlet virulent dirigé contre la société anglaise d'Henri VIII et construction imaginaire proposant en contrepoint l'image d'une société idéale, L'Utopie, publiée en 1516, est la célèbre contribution...

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. But if that which...