Hardy Thomas

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 now-respectable Henchard auctioned off his

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 whole life. Hardy's masterful tale of tragic

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 marriages. Ironically, when tragedy tests their u

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 with a haunting realism, show considerab

Historia tragicznego związku pomiędzy Judą Fawleyem, wiejskim kamieniarzem, który podjął nieudaną próbę wstąpienia do stanu duchownego, a Sue Bridehead, jego kuzynką i wolnomyślicielką, odrzucaną przez społeczeństwo ze względu na buntownicz

A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic

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 Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create

The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a 'sensation novel' in the mode of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen

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 dziedziczy po wuju farmę. Postanawia sama zaj

Jedna ze stu najważniejszych książek wszechczasów! Szalone kontrowersje, jakie wzbudziła książka Thomasa Hardy’ego, Tessa D’Urberville, ukazując otwarty portret seksualnej hipokryzji społeczeństwa epoki wiktoriańskiej, tylko przyczyniły się