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Thomas Hardy, whose writing immortalized the Wessex countryside and dramatized his sense of the inevitable tragedy of life, was born at Upper Bockhampton, near Stinsford in Dorset in 1840, the eldest child of a prosperous stonemason. As a youth he trained as an architect and in 1862 obtained a post in London. During his time he began seriously to write poetry, which remained his first literary love and his last. In 1867-68, his first novel was refused publication, but Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), his first Wessex novel, did well enough to convince him to continue writing. In 1874, Far from... Read More
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy’s immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty while... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy’s immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty while... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $9.00
One of Hardy’s most powerful novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard—having gained power and success as... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $9.00
One of Hardy’s most powerful novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard—having gained power and success as... Read more >
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1981
Price: $5.99
From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels.
Rooted in an actual... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1981
Price: $5.99
From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels.
Rooted in an actual... Read more >
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $9.00
Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller,' and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men—Alec d'Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $9.00
Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller,' and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men—Alec d'Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who... Read more >
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Jude the Obscure
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1985
Price: $5.95
In 1895 Hardy’s final novel, the great tale of Jude the Obscure, sent shock waves of indignation rolling across Victorian England. Hardy had dared to write frankly about sexuality and to indict the institutions of marriage, education, and religion. But he had, in fact, created a deeply moral work. The stonemason... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1985
Price: $5.95
In 1895 Hardy’s final novel, the great tale of Jude the Obscure, sent shock waves of indignation rolling across Victorian England. Hardy had dared to write frankly about sexuality and to indict the institutions of marriage, education, and religion. But he had, in fact, created a deeply moral work. The stonemason... Read more >
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Jude the Obscure
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $8.95
Upon its first appearance in 1895, Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marriage, education, and religion, reportedly causing one Angli-can bishop to order the book publicly burned. The experience so exhausted Hardy that... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $8.95
Upon its first appearance in 1895, Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marriage, education, and religion, reportedly causing one Angli-can bishop to order the book publicly burned. The experience so exhausted Hardy that... Read more >
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2001
Price: $7.95
Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, “The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2001
Price: $7.95
Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, “The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective... Read more >
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The Return of the Native
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy’s most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moor where proud Eustacia fervently awaits a... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy’s most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moor where proud Eustacia fervently awaits a... Read more >
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Hardy: Poems
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 1995
Price: $13.50
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Hardy contains poems from Moments of Vision, Satires of Circumstance, Veteris Vestigia Flammae, Heredity, Short Stories, Afterwards, and an index of first lines. Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 1995
Price: $13.50
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Hardy contains poems from Moments of Vision, Satires of Circumstance, Veteris Vestigia Flammae, Heredity, Short Stories, Afterwards, and an index of first lines. Read more >
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The Return of the Native
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $8.95
One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called "the real stuff of tragedy." The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the novel... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $8.95
One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called "the real stuff of tragedy." The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the novel... Read more >
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: May 25, 1993
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Thomas Hardy’s almost supernatural insight into the course of wayward lives, his instinctive feeling for the beauty of the rural landscape, and his power to invest that landscape with moral significance all came together in an utterly fluent way in The Mayor of Casterbridge. A classically shaped story... Read more >
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: May 25, 1993
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Thomas Hardy’s almost supernatural insight into the course of wayward lives, his instinctive feeling for the beauty of the rural landscape, and his power to invest that landscape with moral significance all came together in an utterly fluent way in The Mayor of Casterbridge. A classically shaped story... Read more >
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The Woodlanders
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: June 9, 1998
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Set in the secluded forest community of Little Hintock, Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders inextricably links the dramatic English landscape with the story of a woman caught between two rivals of radically different social statures. Grace Melbury is promised to her longtime companion, Giles Winterborne, a local woodlander... Read more >
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: June 9, 1998
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Set in the secluded forest community of Little Hintock, Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders inextricably links the dramatic English landscape with the story of a woman caught between two rivals of radically different social statures. Grace Melbury is promised to her longtime companion, Giles Winterborne, a local woodlander... Read more >
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1983
Price: $5.95
Graced with the splendid illustrations executed by Helen Paterson for the first edition of the novel, this special Collector's Edition of Far from the Madding Crowd also features handwritten letters and drawings by Hardy, as well as rare and intimate portraits of the author and his first wife, Emma. Here, too... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1983
Price: $5.95
Graced with the splendid illustrations executed by Helen Paterson for the first edition of the novel, this special Collector's Edition of Far from the Madding Crowd also features handwritten letters and drawings by Hardy, as well as rare and intimate portraits of the author and his first wife, Emma. Here, too... Read more >
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1991
Price: $24.00
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Introduction by Michael Slater Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1991
Price: $24.00
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Introduction by Michael Slater Read more >
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The Return of the Native
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: November 3, 1992
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The Return of the Native is dominated by the brooding presence of Egdon Heath, located in Thomas Hardy’s imaginary Wessex, and in no other book did Hardy’s extraordinary feeling for landscape blend so perfectly with his austere, stoic vision of human fate. Once more he treats his favorite... Read more >
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: November 3, 1992
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The Return of the Native is dominated by the brooding presence of Egdon Heath, located in Thomas Hardy’s imaginary Wessex, and in no other book did Hardy’s extraordinary feeling for landscape blend so perfectly with his austere, stoic vision of human fate. Once more he treats his favorite... Read more >
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: November 26, 1991
Price: $23.00
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy’s early work, Tess of the D’Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy... Read more >
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: November 26, 1991
Price: $23.00
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy’s early work, Tess of the D’Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Jude the Obscure
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: December 15, 1992
Price: $23.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and its unflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a storm of controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly in response, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writing altogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. Though... Read more >
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: December 15, 1992
Price: $23.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and its unflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a storm of controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly in response, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writing altogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. Though... Read more >
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 23, 2004
Price: $4.95
Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's "bestseller," and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men--Alec d'Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 23, 2004
Price: $4.95
Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's "bestseller," and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men--Alec d'Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 29, 2005
Price: $5.99
One of Hardy’s most powerful novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard—having gained power and success as... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 29, 2005
Price: $5.99
One of Hardy’s most powerful novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard—having gained power and success as... Read more >
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Jude the Obscure
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $5.95
Upon its first appearance in 1895, Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marriage, education, and religion, reportedly causing one Angli-can bishop to order the book publicly burned. The experience so exhausted Hardy that... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $5.95
Upon its first appearance in 1895, Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marriage, education, and religion, reportedly causing one Angli-can bishop to order the book publicly burned. The experience so exhausted Hardy that... Read more >
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $5.95
Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, “The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $5.95
Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, “The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective... Read more >
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The Return of the Native
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $4.95
This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy’s most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moor where proud Eustacia fervently awaits a... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $4.95
This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy’s most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moor where proud Eustacia fervently awaits a... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 31, 2000
Price: $7.95
Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendous success of Far from the Madding Crowd persuaded Hardy to give up his first profession, architecture, to concentrate on writing... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 31, 2000
Price: $7.95
Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendous success of Far from the Madding Crowd persuaded Hardy to give up his first profession, architecture, to concentrate on writing... Read more >
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $9.00
Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller,' and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men—Alec d'Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $9.00
Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller,' and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men—Alec d'Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Return of the Native
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $8.95
The Return of the Native combines all of the great themes of Thomas Hardy's works. Wonderful descriptions of the English countryside underscore a rural tale of doomed love, passion, and melancholy. The novel opens with the famous portrait of Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $8.95
The Return of the Native combines all of the great themes of Thomas Hardy's works. Wonderful descriptions of the English countryside underscore a rural tale of doomed love, passion, and melancholy. The novel opens with the famous portrait of Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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