Catálogo de libros: thomas hardy

459 Catálogo de libros: thomas hardy

  • Wessex Tales
    Thomas Hardy
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    32,20 €

  • Memoirs Of The Right Honorable Henry Lord Langdale V1 (1852)
    Thomas Duffus Hardy
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    27,82 €

  • A Laodicean
    Thomas Hardy
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    30,76 €

  • Time’s Laughingstocks And Other Verses (1919)
    Thomas Hardy
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    27,91 €

  • Wessex Tales
    Thomas Hardy
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    27,89 €

  • Jude the Obscure
    Hardy Thomas Hardy
    The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry. The miller at Cresscombe lent him the small white tilted cart and horse to carry his goods to the city of his destination, about twenty miles off, such a vehicle proving of quite suffic ...
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    32,97 €

  • The Woodlanders
    Hardy Thomas Hardy
    The rambler who, for old association or other reasons, should trace the forsaken coach-road running almost in a meridional line from Bristol to the south shore of England, would find himself during the latter half of his journey in the vicinity of some ex ...
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    33,22 €

  • The Trumpet-Major John Loveday, A Soldier In The War With Buonaparte And Robert His Brother, First Mate In The Merchant Service
    Thomas Hardy
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    24,25 €

  • A Changed Man and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy, Fiction, Literary, Short Stories
    Thomas Hardy
    Hardy, among other things, was the author of the poem, 'The Dead Man Walking.' Considered the 'writer of Dorset,' Hardy’s fictional Wessex is perhaps bleaker than the real Dorset itself, long possessed of a hard, cold, lonely beauty.A Changed Man and Other Tales is a collection of Hardy’s stories written between 1880 and 1910. The title story is reminiscent of Hardy’s longer, d...
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    16,06 €

  • Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, Fiction, Literary
    Thomas Hardy
    Bathsheeba Everdene (the only girl in this, ahm, ménage à quatre) has three suitors she must choose among: Gabriel Oak; wealthy, temperate, and middle-aged Farmer Boldwood; and Sergeant Francis Troy. And you know she picks the wrong one, don’t you? -- This is a Thomas Hardy novel, for God’s sake; things never work out right for anybody. But all the same, there’s a lot to be lea...
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    20,90 €

  • Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, Fiction, Classics
    Thomas Hardy
    There’s a tale that goes around even now regarding Thomas Hardy -- that is, that the reaction of readers to one of his novels was so intense -- and so disturbing! -- that he swore off novels and spent the rest of his life committing poetry. Well, the story is true, the way it happens and this is the book responsible: Jude the Obscure. ...
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    20,87 €

  • The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, Fiction, Classics
    Thomas Hardy
    The Return of the Native (1878) followed Far From the Madding Crowd (1874) as the second of Thomas Hardy’s great Wessex novels. Thomas Hardy began and ended his writing career as a poet. In between, he wrote a number of books that many readers find emotionally-wrenching, but which are considered among the classics of 19th Century British literature, including Tess of the D’Urbe...
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    20,87 €

  • Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy, Fiction, Classics, Short Stories, Literary
    Thomas Hardy
    Wessex Tales is a collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy’s birth in 1840.In addition to his great 'Wessex Novels,' Thomas Hardy wrote Wessex Tales (1896), a collection of six stories written in the 1880s and 1890s that, for the most part, are as bleakly ironic and unforgiving as the darkest of his great novels -...
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    14,34 €

  • The Hand of Ethelberta - A Comedy in Chapters
    Thomas Hardy
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    32,60 €

  • Desperate Remedies
    Thomas Hardy
    In the long and intricately inwrought chain of circumstance which renders worthy of record some experiences of Cytherea Graye, Edward Springrove, and others, the first event directly influencing the issue was a Christmas visit. In the above-mentioned year, 1835, Ambrose Graye, a young architect who had just begun the practice of his profession in the midland town of Hocbridge, ...
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    32,99 €

  • The Hand of Ethelberta
    Thomas Hardy
    Young Mrs. Petherwin stepped from the door of an old and well-appointed inn in a Wessex town to take a country walk. By her look and carriage she appeared to belong to that gentle order of society which has no worldly sorrow except when its jewellery gets stolen; but, as a fact not generally known, her claim to distinction was rather one of brains than of blood. She was the dau...
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    32,96 €

  • Desperate Remedies
    Thomas Hardy
    In the long and intricately inwrought chain of circumstance which renders worthy of record some experiences of Cytherea Graye, Edward Springrove, and others, the first event directly influencing the issue was a Christmas visit. In the above-mentioned year, 1835, Ambrose Graye, a young architect who had just begun the practice of his profession in the midland town of Hocbridge, ...
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    29,26 €

  • The Hand of Ethelberta
    Thomas Hardy
    Young Mrs. Petherwin stepped from the door of an old and well-appointed inn in a Wessex town to take a country walk. By her look and carriage she appeared to belong to that gentle order of society which has no worldly sorrow except when its jewellery gets stolen; but, as a fact not generally known, her claim to distinction was rather one of brains than of blood. She was the dau...
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    29,22 €

  • Far from the Madding Crowd
    Thomas Hardy
    WHEN Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, exten- ding upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun. His Christian name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young man of sound judgment, e...
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    29,45 €

  • Lifes Little Ironies
    Thomas Hardy
    To the eyes of a man viewing it from behind, the nut-brown hair was a wonder and a mystery. Under the black beaver hat, surmounted by its tuft of black feathers, the long locks, braided and twisted and coiled like the rushes of a basket, composed a rare, if some-what barbaric, example of ingenious art. One could understand such weavings and coilings being wrought to last intac...
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    30,23 €

  • A Group of Noble Dames
    Thomas Hardy
    The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue - the faintest tradition of what went on behind the scenes, nd this dryness as of dust may be transformed into a palpitating drama. More, the careful comparison of dates alone ...
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    30,45 €

  • The Trumpet Major
    Thomas Hardy
    The present tale is founded more largely on testimony - oral and written - than any other in this series. The external incidents which direct its course are mostly an unexaggerated reproduction of the recollections of old persons well known to the author in childhood, but now long dead, who were eye-witnesses of those scenes. If wholly transcribed their recollections would have...
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    29,59 €

  • The Well Beloved
    Thomas Hardy
    The peninsula carved by Time out of a single stone, whereon most of the following scenes are laid, has been for centuries immemorial the home of a curious and well-nigh distinct people, cherishing strange beliefs and singular customs, now for the most part obsolescent. Fancies, like certain soft-wooded plants which cannot bear the silent inland frosts, but thrive by the sea in ...
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    30,41 €

  • Two on a Tower
    Thomas Hardy
    This slightly-built romance was the outcome of a wish to set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe, and to impart to readers the sentiment that of these contrasting magnitudes the smaller might be the greater to them as men. But, on the publication of the book people seemed to be less struck with these...
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    29,89 €

  • A Changed Man
    Thomas Hardy
    The person who, next to the actors themselves, chanced to know most of their story, lived just below ’Top o’ Town’ (as the spot was called) in an old substantially-built house, distinguished among its neighbours by having an oriel window on the first floor, whence could be obtained a raking view of the High Street, west and east, the former including Laura’s dwelling, the end o...
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    30,00 €

  • Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy
    Thomas Hardy
    This wonderful volume contains the complete poetical works of Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), was one of England’s greatest novelists during the nineteenth century, and one of its most esteemed poets of the twentieth. He was a poet by choice and a novelist by necessity, and this destination is evident in the beautiful and masterfully-composed poetry contained within t...
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    50,18 €

  • The Mayor of Casterbridge
    Thomas Hardy
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were appro- aching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in Upper W...
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    29,81 €

  • A Pair of Blue Eyes
    Thomas Hardy
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The following chapters were written at a time when the craze for indiscriminate church-restoration had just reached the remotest nooks of western England, where the wild and tragic features of the coast had lon...
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    29,21 €

  • Desperate Remedies
    Thomas Hardy
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    27,74 €

  • Jude the Obscure
    Thomas Defendant Hardy
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    30,14 €