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Author: Thomas Hardy, Edward LeesonBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tear front bottom left corner (see photo)The Bedside Hardy is a...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good — pages intact, binding firm. Few writers have rendered the English countryside...

Penguin Classics relaunch When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec...

The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the...

Author: Thomas HardyBinding: HardbackPublished: Octopus Books Limited, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: No markings-

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA cornerstone of Victorian literature, Tess of the D'Urbervilles chronicles the tragic life of Tess Durbeyfield, a young peasant...

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Anne Garland lives with her widowed mother in a mill, owned by Miller Loveday. She is wooed by three men: the stupid, coarse Festus Derriman; John Loveday, the quiet, thoughtful...

Tess Durbeyfield, an innocent village girl, is seduced by a wealthy rake, Alec D'Urberville. Though he makes her pregnant she does not love him and and leaves him to return...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 'I cannot allow any man to -...

Penguin Classics relaunch When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been...

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...

Penguin Classics relaunch Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence...

Sue Bridehead, his last heroine, is an extaordinarily complex woman - an English Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina. Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty...

Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'My life looks as if it had been wasted...

Penguin Classics relaunch. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE was written towards the beginning of Hardy's career as a novelist and can be considered one of his most representative works. In...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library "I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I...

A stunning clothbound edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge, a haunting study of guilt and lost love Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie...

Penguin Classics relaunch. In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following...

A beautiful boxed set of four of Thomas Hardy's greatest works Set in Hardy's fictional realm of Wessex, these four charming novels have been brought together in a stunning clothbound...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the restless, modernising England of the Victorian era, Thomas Hardy's A Laodicean: A Story of To-Day presents a compelling portrait of a woman caught...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd stands as one of the...

Author: Thomas HardyBinding: HardbackPublished: GUILD PUBLISHING LONDONCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles presents a poignant Victorian tragedy, chronicling the life of a young woman whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFew writers have captured the rugged beauty and quiet tragedy of rural England with as much power and precision as Thomas Hardy, and this magnificent omnibus...

Thomas Hardy remains one of the best loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his popularity from the elegiac tone of much of his best verse and the universality...

Author: Thomas HardyBinding: HardbackPublished: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 2000Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThomas Hardy's enduring masterpiece, Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, chronicles the tragic odyssey of...

Desperate Remedies was Hardy's first published work, and combines murder mystery with a powerful love story. Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'....

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA cornerstone of English literary tradition, Landscape Poets: Thomas Hardy presents a curated selection of verse from one of Britain's...

'A Pair of Blue Eyes', though early in the sequence of Hardy's novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and...

Hardy's first Wessex novel, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure stands as one of the most powerful...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodThree of Victorian literature's most enduring masterworks are gathered in this essential omnibus edition from The Library of World Classics, uniting Thomas Hardy's unflinching vision of...

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...

Author: Thomas HardyBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThomas Hardy's The Life And Death Of The Mayor Of Casterbridge: A Story Of A Man Of Character chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the fog-laden market town of Casterbridge, a single act of drunken recklessness sets in motion...

A beautiful clothbound edition of Hardy's most tragic novel Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound...

Author: Thomas HardyBinding: HardbackPublished: GUILD PUBLISHING LONDON, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis poignant Victorian novel chronicles the dramatic downfall of Michael Henchard, a man whose impulsive youthful act casts...

In this compelling tale of love and deceit, in which Hardy drew upon his own experiences When Elfrise Swanston meets Stephen Smith she is attracted to his handsome face, gentle...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAgainst the brooding, untamed expanse of Egdon Heath — a landscape so vivid it becomes a character unto...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few literary lives are as intricately woven with the landscape and soul...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...