The Mayor of Casterbridge - formato ePub

Bathsheba Everdene, una muchacha con una sonrisa «de las que sugieren que los corazones son cosas que se pierden y se ganan», hereda, a la muerte de su tío, la mayor granja del pueblo de Weatherbury....

Cuando el párroco de los Durberfield descubre por azar el origen noble de su linaje, la joven Tess es enviada a reclamar su parentesco ante los nuevos D’Urberville, que compraron el título años atrás....

Un par de ojos azules La estructura de la novela viene marcada por su protagonista femenina, Elfride Swancourt, encarnación literaria de la mujer de Thomas Hardy, cuya vitalidad y emotividad ejercen una...

El regreso del nativo El mundo novelesco de Hardy se desenvuelve en el territorio que él llama Wessex y que es su Dorsetshire natal, un mundo sombrío, pelado, medio inhóspito, que en El regreso del nativo...

El regreso del nativo es la sexta novela publicada de Thomas Hardy. Apareció por vez primera en la revista Belgravia, una publicación conocida por su sensacionalismo, y fue presentada en doce mensualidades...

En la peripecia de Jude Fawley –en el abandono de su mujer, en su renuncia forzosa a seguir estudios universitarios, en la relación ilícita, tortuosa y vagabunda que emprende con su prima Sue-, Thomas...

El alcalde de Casterbridge (1886), una de las novelas de madurez de Thomas Hardy y, junto con Jude el oscuro (1895), una de las que cimentan su histórica fama de novelista trágico, se abre con una escena...

«La más perfecta de las novelas de Thomas Hardy.» J. M. Barrie «Para quienes viven en el bosque, casi todos los árboles tienen una voz propia, además de unos rasgos propios»: así también son los persona-jes...

John Durbeyfield, de la aldea de Marlott, arrendatario de una pequeña vivienda con terreno, padre de siete hijos, haragán y borrachín, se entera un buen día de que su apellido es en realidad una deformación...

Jude Fawley es un joven de origen campesino cuya principal aspiración es acceder a tener unos estudios, para lo cual no escatima esfuerzos aun cuando se emplee en el oficio de cantero. La consecución...

Lady Constantine se aburre en su finca del suroeste de Inglaterra por la ausencia de su marido, hasta que un día, en una torre de la heredad, conoce a Swithin St Cleeve, diez años más joven que ella,...

"Los habitantes del bosque" forma, junto con "Tess" y "Jude el oscuro", el tríptico con el que Hardy cerró su carrera de novelista y nos dio sus mejores creaciones. Pese a ser un poco menos conocida...

La bien amada Jocelyn Pierston pertenece a una de las familias más importantes de Horada, una isla dedicada a la explotación de sus canteras. Sin embargo, desea dedicarse al arte y aspira a ser uno de...

«Un pequeño placer para el paladar literario.» SolodelibrosRetenidos por el mal tiempo en un museo municipal, los miembros del Club de Naturaleza y Arqueología de Wessex deciden entretenerse contando...

Este volumen reúne los cuatro libros de cuentos que Thomas Hardy publicó en vida –Cuentos de Wessex, Un grupo de nobles damas, Pequeñas ironías de la vida y Un hombre cambiado y otros relatos– más algunos...

El regreso del nativo es la sexta novela publicada de Thomas Hardy. Apareció por vez primera en la revista Belgravia, una publicación conocida por su sensacionalismo, y fue presentada en doce mensualidades...

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The lives of a young junior customer service assistant, an old lady, and a middle-aged man are changed forever when three masked males break into the bank in Roundley, wielding a machete and a large sledgehammer....

Jean-Michel d'Aron, son of Alain d'Aron, owner of the noble inn "Zum Weißen Falken" in Paris, was born in 1769. As a student, he was forced to flee during the night of the fire in Paris in 1793. He stayed...

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Like Cinderella, Alice MacJextey also suffers from the bullying of an evil stepmother and a no-less-mean stepsister. The differences between Alice's loving mother and the father's new wife get so out...

It is the year 1854 and witch hunts are taking place. Violet lives with her father and cat Widow deep in the forest, far away from the villagers responsible for her mother's death. She was suspected of...

Imagine it's Thursday morning. You are going about your work outside when it starts to rain. A storm is approaching. You want to finish quickly. You get into a rush. An accident happens. Your leg is injured....

Particularly today, it is of great importance to draw children's attention to the diverse life in the forest, to help them develop their love for flora and fauna and to show them the vital symbiosis between...

Sigurd survived the alien attack only by using his paranormal powers. When the aliens strike again and his two colleagues Mark Merlin and Selin Wiegand disappear, he gets the order to look for them. However,...

Extraterrestrial intelligences operate on Earth undetected by the public. The largest, worldwide security service Life-Int-Ltd. becomes aware of this. Sigurd Westall, a new employee of the corporation,...

At the end of the corridor, he led her into a lift. They started moving upwards, and Loreen didn't know where to look with the blond standing opposite her, scowling at her with his jaw set. She crossed...

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