Thomas Hardy (47 kníh)
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Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles ENInto his story of a simple but beautiful country girl's seduction by another man which causes her husband to leave her on their wedding night and thereby precipitates a course of events that ends in murder, Hardy wove a luminous tenderness and longing. I have never been able to put on paper all that she is, or was to me, he said. In defying convention and making a milkmaid the subject of tregedy, Hardy gave rein to…
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Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles ENMy life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am! Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world, Tess of the D'Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she attempts to escape the poverty of her background, seeking wealth by claiming connection with the aristocratic D…
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Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'UrbervillesPart 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 with foil stamped into the design...
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Thomas Hardy Tess of the D´Urbervilles ENIn defying convention and making a milkmaid the subject tragedy, Hardy given rein to his feeling for landscape and rural life- its harshness, seasonal rhythms and reminders of death and resurrection - nad endows them with a brooding symbolism and visionary beauty.
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Thomas Hardy Tess z d´Ubervillů CZRomán Thomase Hardyho Tess z D’Urbervillů patří k nejslavnějším viktoriánským románům a na čtenářské oblibě neztratil dodnes. Ve své době vzbudil obrovský rozruch a náležitě bouřlivou odezvu, zvláště díky autorově vášnivé obžalobě puritánské viktoriánské morálky. Podobně jako většina Hardyho ostatních románů se i Tess z D’Urbervillů odehrává ve fiktivním jihoanglickém hrabství Wessex; jeho hlavní hrdinkou je…
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Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge ENMichael 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? Classic / British English
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Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge ENHere - I am waiting to know about this offer of mine. The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her? 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 years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of…
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Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge ENWhen Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become Mayor. Although he’s spent most of his life attempting to repent for his actions, he remains a rash and impetuous man. Hardy portrays Henchard as a tragic hero, searching for love and acceptance…
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Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge + MP3 ENMichael 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? Classic / British English
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Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy Boxed SetSet in Hardy's fictional realm of Wessex, these four charming novels have been brought together in a stunning clothbound set, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. From the moving and poetic story of Tess of the D'Urbervilles...
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Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree ENFrom the author of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Under the Greenwood Tree is a tale of love, tragedy and the changing charm of traditional village life when it is met with the cold reality of modernity. Centring on the quaint rural village of Mellstock, set deep within Hardy’s imagined and picturesque county of Wessex, the novel revolves around a double plot of the hopeful love story of Dick Dewey and Fancy Day and…
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