Thomas Hardy
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The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Thomas Hardy
Издательство: Wordsworth, 2008
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PDF, 960 страниц, 28.80 МБ
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Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary stamina and a consistent individuality of style and vision made him a survivor, immune to literary fashion. At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did, even in his own lifetime. He is now recognised not only as a great poet, but as one who is widely loved. He speaks with directness, humanity and humour to scholarly or ordinary readers alike.
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24 августа 2010
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Far from the Madding Crowd
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Thomas Hardy
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993
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PDF, 362 страницы, 10.86 МБ
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«Far from the Madding Crowd» is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was '...the past was yesterday; never, the day after'. And lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood, whose love fills him with '...a fearful sense of exposure', when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba. The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods.»
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gramavik
16 февраля 2009
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Jude the Obscure
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Thomas Hardy
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995
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DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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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 fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair.
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delovar
15 июня 2009
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Life's Little Ironies
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Thomas Hardy
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1996
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PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ
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The proverbial phrase ‘life’s little ironies’ was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal of the quaint lore of Wessex, the ‘Chaucerian’ humour and characterisation, the shrewd and critical psychology, the poignant estimate of human nature and the brooding sense of wonder at the essential mystery of life. The tales which make up Life's Little Ironies tenderly re-create a rapidly vanishing rural world and scrutinise the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life. They share the many concerns of Hardy's last great novels, such as the failure of modern marriage and the insidious effects of social ambition on the family and community life. Ranging widely in length and complexity, they are unified by Hardy's quintessential irony, which embraces both the farcical and the tragic aspects of human existence.
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anatoly_24
16 марта 2009
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Thomas Hardy
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994
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PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ
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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 Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character'. The fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force, and features some of the author's most striking episodes and brilliant passages of description.
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vitalysev
11 июля 2009
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Thomas Hardy
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995
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DjVu, 306 страниц, 12.24 МБ
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A Pair of Blue Eyes is celebrated for its central scene which shocked and stimulated Victorian readers. Forever after it caused Hardy to be embroiled in arguments concerning the sexual morality of his novels in which he strove to show the stifling effects of social conventions on the human spirit. Rich with biographical echoes, this novel reveals the full emergence of the schematic ironies which characterize Hardy's later great works, and gives a suggestion of the tragic philosophy that came to dominate all he wrote. The loving nature of the heroine, Elfride Swancourt, pervades this novel, which has a singular unpolished charm.
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harmony
16 февраля 2009
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The Return of the Native
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Thomas Hardy
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995
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PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ
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«The central figure of this novel is the returning «native», Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye. As character after character is driven to self-destruction, the presence of Egdon Heath becomes all-embracing, while Clym becomes a preacher.»
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12 апреля 2009
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The Trumpet-Major
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Thomas Hardy
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995
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PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ
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«Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, «The Trumpet Major» is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day, making us feel the impact of historical events on the immemorial local way of life — the glamour of the coming of George III and his soldiery, fears of the press-gang and invasion, and the effect of distant but momentous events like the Battle of Trafalgar. He interweaves a compelling, bitter-sweet romantic love story of the rivalry of two brothers for the hand of the heroine Anne Garland, played out against the loves of a lively gallery of other characters. While there are elements of sadness and even tragedy, «The Trumpet-Major» shows Hardy's skills of story-telling, characterisation and description in a novel of vitality, comedy and warmth.»
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vitalysev
11 июня 2009
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Under the Greenwood Tree
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Thomas Hardy
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994
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PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ
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«Under the Greenwood Tree» is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy as a writer. However, the novel is not merely a charming rural idyll. The double-plot, in which the love story of Dick Dewey and Fancy Day is inter-related with a tragic chapter in the history of Mellstock Choir, hints at the poignant disappearance of a long-lived and highly-valued traditional way of life.»
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zorkuzz
14 февраля 2009
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The Well-Beloved
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Thomas Hardy
Издательство: Wordsworth, 2000
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DOC, 368 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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«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 an image of his ideal woman — his imaginary «Well-Beloved» — in stone, just as he tries to find her in the flesh. Powerful symbolism marks this romantic fantasy that Hardy has grounded firmly in reality with a characteristically authentic rendering of location, the Isle of Slingers, or Portland as we know it. Overt exploration of the relationship between erotic fascination and creativity makes this novel a nineteenth-century landmark in the persistent debate about art, aesthetics and gender.»
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lubacha
26 мая 2009
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Wessex Tales
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Thomas Hardy
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995
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PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ
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«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 considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy to realism and from tragedy to comedy.»
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allkonekt
05 июня 2009
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The Woodlanders
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Thomas Hardy
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1996
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PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ
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Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a moving tale that has vibrant characters, many humorous moments and genuine pathos coupled with tragic irony, Hardy eschews a happy ending. With characteristic derision, he exposes the cruel indifference of the archaic legal system off his day, and shows the tragic consequences of untimely adherence to futile social and religious proprieties.
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phoenix7
08 марта 2009
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Pearson
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Автор: Thomas Hardy
Издательство: Pearson, 2008
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PDF, 104 страницы, 3.12 МБ
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Michael Henchard is a wealthy and respected man, but he has a terrible secret. Twenty years ago, when he was unemployed and penniless, he sold his wife to a sailor. Now she is looking for him again. Why? And what will happen when she finds him?
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lycemer
25 мая 2011
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