Em meio ao território inóspito e infértil de Egdon Heath, o sexto romance de Thomas Hardy revela a história de Clym Yeobright, que retorna para casa após uma temporada em Paris. Ele, sua prima Thomasin, seu noivo Damon Wildeve e a determinada Eustacia Vye são os protagonistas de uma história repleta de amores trágicos, paixão, alienação, melancolia e o papel do destino na vida do homem.

Após herdar, inesperadamente, uma grande fazenda, Bathsheba Everdene se muda para a rural Weatherbury, marcando sua presença como uma das poucas mulheres a gerir as próprias terras na Inglaterra vitoriana. Determinada e independente, Bathsheba rapidamente atrai a atenção de três pretendentes: Gabriel Oak, um pastor leal; o reservado sr. Boldwood; e o encantador sargento Troy. Cada pretendente lhe ...

Após herdar, inesperadamente, uma grande fazenda, Bathsheba Everdene se muda para a rural Weatherbury, marcando sua presença como uma das poucas mulheres a gerir as próprias terras na Inglaterra vitoriana. Determinada e independente, Bathsheba rapidamente atrai a atenção de três pretendentes: Gabriel Oak, um pastor leal; o reservado sr. Boldwood; e o encantador sargento Troy. Cada pretendente lhe ...

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Esta história é contada pelo narrador que, ao estabelecer diálogo com um amigo seu acerca do funeral de José Matias (amigo comum), aproveita a oportunidade para contar a história amorosa do falecido. Todo o relato é feito essencialmente por meio da cena dialogada.

Com o atraso da chegada do novo ministro metodista na paróquia da pequena cidade de Nether-Moynton, o jovem pregador Stockdale vem ocupar temporariamente a posição. Ele se estabelece na casa da jovem e bela viúva Lizzy Newberry, por quem se apaixona. Num fim da tarde, Stockdale se irrita ao encontrar em seus aposentos uma sobrecasaca, um chapéu e um par de culotes que descobre serem do falecido S...

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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 proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive depiction of ...

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Tess of the durbervilles

Tess of the d'Urbervilles is the twelfth novel by English author Thomas Hardy and was published in 1892. Tess of the D’Urbervilles is an epic tale telling the tragic life of Tess Durbeyfield and her disasters in love. The book is faithful to the original text. The book has coated page edging, detailed foiling on the front cover and a page marker. This edition of the beloved classic will make a won...

THREE STRANGERS STORIES (HGR I) - 1ª

Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he´s not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but H...

Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. 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 condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor ...

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 erotic. With settings in Wessex and London, the novel also has some strongly autobiographical features, as the blue-eyed heroine, Elfride Swancourt, is based largely on Emma Gifford, who became Thomas Hardy's first w...

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 condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her se...

With an Introduction and Notes by Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. 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 and fate of all who dwell on it. The central figure is Clym Yeobright, the returning ‘native’ and the story tells o...

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 i...

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 auth...

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 ...

Hardy's atmospheric, moving story of star-crossed lovers shows human beings at the mercy of forces far beyond their control, setting a tragic drama of human passion and conflict against a background of vast stellar space and scientific discovery. Two on a Tower tells the story of Lady Constantine, who breaks all the rules of decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve...

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 th...

livro novo nunca manuseado Step into the universe of Thomas Hardy, where fate weaves its threads with a somber beauty, and the rural life of England hides hearts at the mercy of fatalism and social conventions. Known for his novels of profound fatalism and social criticism, Hardy constructs in his tales a fictional world, Wessex, in which his characters confront impersonal forces that irrevocably ...

Livro novo. Nunca manuseado Após herdar, inesperadamente, uma grande fazenda, Bathsheba Everdene se muda para a rural Weatherbury, marcando sua presença como uma das poucas mulheres a gerir as próprias terras na Inglaterra vitoriana. Determinada e independente, Bathsheba rapidamente atrai a atenção de três pretendentes: Gabriel Oak, um pastor leal; o reservado sr. Boldwood; e o encantador sargento...

Livro novo. Nunca manuseado Em meio ao território inóspito e infértil de Egdon Heath, o sexto romance de Thomas Hardy revela a história de Clym Yeobright, que retorna para casa após uma temporada em Paris. Ele, sua prima Thomasin, seu noivo Damon Wildeve e a determinada Eustacia Vye são os protagonistas de uma história repleta de amores trágicos, paixão, alienação, melancolia e o papel do destino ...

livro novo; nunca manuseado

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 proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive depiction of ...