Wspaniały portret niezależnej kobiety, która potrafi wybrnąć nawet z pozornie nieodwracalnych skutków źle podjętych decyzji. Klasyczna i jedna z najlepszych powieści w dorobku autora, obrazowo ukazuj
Powieść „Z dala od zgiełku" Thomasa Hardy'ego to barwna opowieść o życiu i miłości na angielskiej wsi w XIX wieku. Główną bohaterką jest Betsaba Everdene, niezależna kobieta, której losy splatają się
Jedna ze stu najważniejszych książek wszech czasów!
Otwarty portret seksualnej hipokryzji społeczeństwa epoki wiktoriańskiej.
Powieść Thomasa Hardy’ego natychmiast po premierze w 1891 roku wzbudził
None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dors
Far From the Maddening Crowd, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new s
Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was cond
The Return of the Native is widely recognised as the most representative of Hardy's Wessex novels. He evokes the dismal presence and menacing beauty of Egdon Heath - reaching out to touch the lives a
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. The young and unworldly Tess is thrown into the clutches of predatory Alec D'Urberville and so begins a series of events that will the shape the course of her who
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Far From A Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy tells the story of a farmer named Gabriel Oak who falls in love with a headstrong, independent woman named Bathsheba Ever
Part of the Chiltern Classics rangeMichael Henchard has risen to become a prosperous merchant and mayor of Casterbridge, but he habours a shameful secret. In his youth, while in a drunken rage, the n
The phrase `life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined by Hardy as the title for this, his third volume of short stories. While the tales and sketches reflect many of the strengths a
In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in Dorset, now in a new edition, Hardy narrates the rivalry for the hand of Grace Melbury between a si
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also in
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also in
Ekskluzywna edycja oprawiona w delikatną gładką tkaninę o właściwościach jedwabiu. Poruszająca historia miłości, zdrady oraz zbrodni w połączeniu z realiami wiejskiego życia i krytyką hipokry
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfil
The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy `I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!` she exclaimed. `Nor will I for a minute` Hardy`s po
Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued
Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have left earlier marriage
Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. In The Trumpet-Major, the tale of a woman courted by three compe
The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Piers
Najgłośniejsza powieść Hardy’ego, w 1979 r. sfilmowana przez Romana Polańskiego, ukazuje tragiczne losy Tessy d’Urberville, pochodzącej ze zubożałego rodu szlacheckiego. W realiach wiktoriańskiej Ang
Napisana po mistrzowsku, z szerokim, epickim oddechem, historia człowieka, który nie umie zmagać się z życiem i walczyć o swoje. Juda, choć bystry, nie zostaje naukowcem, jak sobie wymarzył w dzieciń
With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury.
Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson
Jedna ze stu najważniejszych książek wszechczasów!
Szalone kontrowersje, jakie wzbudziła książka Thomasa Hardy’ego, Tessa D’Urberville, ukazując otwarty portret seksualnej hipokryzji społeczeństwa e
Znana brytyjska powieść o sile miłości i namiętności, na której podstawie powstał wzruszający film z Carey Mulligan i Tomem Sturridge’em. Prowincja dziewiętnastowiecznej Anglii. Betsaba Everdene dzie
Historia tragicznego związku pomiędzy Judą Fawleyem, wiejskim kamieniarzem, który podjął nieudaną próbę wstąpienia do stanu duchownego, a Sue Bridehead, jego kuzynką i wolnomyślicielką, odrzucaną prz
Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles, in hope that they might help her alleviate her own family's poverty. Her encounter with her man