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The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy, Simon Gatrell (ed.), and Margaret R. Higonnet
‘To be loved to madness - such was her great desire’ Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. ...
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin, and Alan Manford (ed.)
‘Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.’ Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St Juliot, where ...
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy, Pamela Dalziel, and Dale Kramer (ed.)
‘The woman is no good to me. Who’ll have her?’ Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen ...
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy, Suzanne B. Falck-Yi (ed.), and Linda M. Shires
‘I shall do one thing in this life – one thing for certain – that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.’ Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of ...
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy, Simon Gatrell (ed.), Juliet Grindle (ed.), and Penny Boumelha
‘She looked absolutely pure. Nature, in her fantastic trickery, had set such a seal of maidenhood upon Tess s countenance that he gazed at her with a stupefied air: “Tess– say it is not ...
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Wessex Tales
Thomas Hardy and Kathryn King (ed.)
In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. But these ...
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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy and Patricia Ingham (ed.)
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul?' Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but he is ...
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Desperate Remedies
Thomas Hardy and Patricia Ingham (ed.)
She was swayed into emotional opinions concerning the strange man before her; new impulses of thought…entered into her with a gnawing thrill.' Hardy's first published work, Desperate ...
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The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy, Dale Kramer (ed.), and Penny Boumelha
‘If ever I forget your name let me forget home and heaven…But no, no, my love, I never can forget’ee; for you was a good man, and did good things!’ Love, and the erratic heart, are at the ...
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Under the Greenwood Tree (2 ed.)
Thomas Hardy, Simon Gatrell (ed.), and Phillip Mallett
This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is ...
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