Books by Thomas Hardy

Portrait of Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy stands as one of the defining voices of nineteenth‑century English literature, celebrated for his vivid portrayals of rural Wessex and his unflinching insight into human struggle. His novels, including enduring classics such as *Tess of the d'Urbervilles* and *Far from the Madding Crowd*, capture a world in transition, where tradition collides with the forces of modernity. Hardy's finely tuned prose and deep empathy for his characters reveal the complexities of fate, love, and social convention.

Beyond his fiction, Hardy's poetry cemented his reputation as a writer of remarkable emotional range and technical precision. His verse, often meditative and elegiac, mirrors the same keen observation and moral questioning that shaped his prose. Together, his works form a rich and timeless portrait of human endurance, making Hardy an essential figure for readers drawn to the beauty and melancholy of the English countryside.

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  • Hardpress Publishing Desperate Remedies a Novel 1

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  • HardPress Publishing A Group of Noble Dames

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  • HardPress Publishing The Hand of Ethelberta

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  • Alianza Editorial Dos en una torre

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    Book SynopsisLady 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, de posición social inferior, muy atractivo y estudiante de astronomía. Esa torre se convertirá en el centro de su romance secreto, pero enseguida el mundo exterior empezará a interponerse entre ellos. " Dos en una torre " es una arrebatadora novela de Thomas Hardy en la que las constantes de su obra (la estrechez moral de la sociedad, la desigualdad entre los sexos, la rebeldía femenina y su derecho a elegir) vuelven a estar presentes y la inmensidad del universo que Swithin recorre con su telescopio contrasta con la pequeñez y mezquindad de la vida en la tierra.

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  • Jude el oscuro

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    Book SynopsisJude 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 de sus ilusiones, sin embargo, se verá afectada por sus relaciones, primero, con la desenvuelta Arabella Donn y, después, con su viva e inteligente prima Sue. Los impulsos y las decisiones de Jude irán complicando de forma creciente y trágica su trayectoria vital hasta un desastrado fin que rubricará, precisamente, la oscuridad de su existencia.

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  • Ediciones de Intervención Cultural El regreso del nativo

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  • Far from the Madding Crowd

    Penguin Publishing Group Far from the Madding Crowd

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    Book SynopsisA Clothbound Classics edition of Thomas Hardy’s impassioned novel of courtship in rural life   In Thomas Hardy’s first major literary success, 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, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. One of his first works set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex, Hardy’s novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships. This edition, based on Hardy’s original 1874 manuscript, is the complete novel he never saw published, and restores

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  • The Woodlanders Everymans Library Classics

    Random House USA Inc The Woodlanders Everymans Library Classics

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    Book SynopsisThe Woodlanders (1887) was Thomas Hardy's own favorite among his stories, and no other book of his more fully represents the many sides of his genius. This portrait of five people in an English village who are tangled in a drama of passion, betrayal, poverty, and pride of place richly demonstrates all of Hardy's distinguishing qualities—his intimacy with rural England, his feeling for nature, his frankness about physical desire, and his gift for rendering, in the most specific way, the mystery at the heart of things.This Everyman's Library edition is set from the text of the 1912 Wessex edition and includes Hardy’s map of fictional Wessex.(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

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  • Tess of the dUrbervilles

    Random House USA Inc Tess of the dUrbervilles

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    Book SynopsisEtched 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 seduces her in a lonely wood, and Angel Clare, her provincial, moralistic, and unforgiving husband—Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act. 'Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination,' said Irving Howe. 'In Tess he stakes everything on his sensuous apprehension of a young woman's life, a girl who is at once a simple milkmaid and an archetype of feminine strength. . . . Tess is that rare creature in literature: goodness made interesting.' Now Tess of the d'Urbervilles has been brought to television in a

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  • The Mayor of Casterbridge

    Random House Publishing Group The Mayor of Casterbridge

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    Book SynopsisOne 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 the mayor—finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a rich, psychological novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause his ruin. This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the authoritative 1912 Wessex edition, as well as Hardy’s map of Wessex.

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    £11.28

  • The Return of the Native

    WW Norton & Co The Return of the Native

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    Book SynopsisThis Second Edition reprints the text of the authoritative 1912 Macmillan Wessex Edition.

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    £23.65

  • Jude the Obscure

    WW Norton & Co Jude the Obscure

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    Book SynopsisThis third Norton Critical Edition of Hardy's last novel has been revised to reflect the breadth of responses it has received over the last fifteen years.

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    £16.40

  • Far From the Madding Crowd

    Penguin Putnam Inc Far From the Madding Crowd

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    Book SynopsisGabriel Oaks observes Bathsheba Everdene, the young mistress of Weatherbury Farm, fall victim to bad decisions and romantic impulses, unaware of the stroke of fate that will finally bring about their union.

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  • The Mayor Of Casterbridge

    Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Mayor Of Casterbridge

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    Book SynopsisFrom 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 case of wife-selling in early nineteenth-century England, the story build into an awesome Sophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willful Henchard rises to a position of wealth and power-only to suffer a most bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to his own destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, “Hardy’s Lord Jim…his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction.

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  • Tess of the dUrbervilles

    Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Tess of the dUrbervilles

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    Book SynopsisViolated 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 passionately indicting the injustices of Victorian society. Scorned by outraged readers upon its publication in 1891, Tess of the d’Urbervilles is today one of the enduring classics of nineteenth-century literature.

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  • Far from the Madding Crowd Everymans Library

    Random House USA Inc Far from the Madding Crowd Everymans Library

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    Book SynopsisFar From the Madding Crowd, published in 1874, is the book that made Hardy famous. Bathsheba Everdene is a prosperous farmer in Hardy’s fictional Wessex county whose strong-minded independence and vanity lead to disastrous consequences for her and the three very different men who pursue her: the obsessed farmer William Boldwood, dashing and seductive Sergeant Frank Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, Far from the Madding Crowd is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy’s great novels, as Bathsheba and her suitors move through a beautifully realized late-nineteenth-century agrarian landscape that is still almost untouched by the industrial revolution and the encroachment of modern life. With an introduction by Michael Slater

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    £21.60

  • The Mayor of Casterbridge Vintage Classics

    Random House USA Inc The Mayor of Casterbridge Vintage Classics

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    Book SynopsisThe Mayor of Casterbridge is a man haunted by his past. In his youth he betrayed his wife and baby daughter in a shocking incident that led him to swear never to touch alcohol again for twenty-one years. He has since risen from his humble origins to become a respected pillar of the community in Casterbridge, but his secrets cannot stay hidden forever.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 about the rise and fall of the brooding and sometimes brutal Michael Henchard in the harsh world of nineteenth-century rural England, The Mayor of Casterbridge is an emblematic product of Hardy’s maturity–vigorous, forceful, and unclouded by illusions.

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  • Lejos del mundanal ruido

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