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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  • Jude the Obscure

    WW Norton & Co Jude the Obscure

    2 in stock

    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.

    2 in stock

    £16.40

  • Penguin Putnam Inc Tess Of The Durbervilles

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    £999.99

  • Far From the Madding Crowd

    Penguin Putnam Inc Far From the Madding Crowd

    10 in stock

    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.

    10 in stock

    £6.95

  • The Mayor Of Casterbridge

    Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Mayor Of Casterbridge

    10 in stock

    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.

    10 in stock

    £7.36

  • Tess of the dUrbervilles

    Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Tess of the dUrbervilles

    10 in stock

    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.

    10 in stock

    £7.92

  • Far from the Madding Crowd Everymans Library

    Random House USA Inc Far from the Madding Crowd Everymans Library

    10 in stock

    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

    10 in stock

    £21.60

  • The Mayor of Casterbridge Vintage Classics

    Random House USA Inc The Mayor of Casterbridge Vintage Classics

    10 in stock

    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.

    10 in stock

    £20.90

  • Lejos del mundanal ruido

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £23.74

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