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The Return of the Native, 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 scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
To Be or Not to Be Worthy of One's Love"On older trees still than these huge lobes of fungi grew like lungs. Here, as everywhere, the Unfulfilled Intention, which makes life what it is, was as obvious as it could be among the depraved crowds of a city slum. The leaf was deformed....the taper was interrupted..and the ivy slowly strangled to death the promising sapling." - Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders
After spending several years
...Hardy's Love Triangle
"There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness." - Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes
Elfride Swancourt, a beautiful young woman, is caught between the love of two men: Stephen Smith, a low-born
...Everybody Has Secrets
"I am now about to enter on my normal condition. For people are almost always in their graves. When we survey the long race of men, it is strange and still more strange to find that they are mainly dead men, who have scarcely ever been otherwise." - Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies
Cytherea Graye is left penniless with her younger brother, Owen after her father died in a terrible accident so she must look
...11) Two on a tower
This volume includes three iconic novels by the author known for chronicling nineteenth-century English society.
Far from the Madding Crowd: A tale of love, tragedy, and a woman brave enough to defy convention.
Jude the Obscure: A young stonemason who had aspired to a career in academia finds himself trapped in an...
This volume includes three of the greatest works by the iconic Victorian novelist.
The Return of the Native: Eustacia Vye yearns to escape the village of Egdon Heath, but her marriage to a well-traveled man doesn’t bring the adventure she craves, in this novel that brilliantly evokes the dangerous allure of romantic fantasies....
Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at festivals and themes throughout the year each through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a unique poetic guide. Christmas, they say, comes but once a year. In these days it seems to also
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18) Wessex tales
Ironic short stories
"Stockdale, a lonely young fellow, who had for weeks felt a great craving for somebody on whom to throw away superfluous interest, and even tenderness, was not sorry to join her...."- Thomas Hardy, Wessex Tales
A collection of six novellas, written in the 1880s and 1890s, about the true nature of nineteenth century marriage and its inherent restrictions.
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