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""The Mayor of Casterbridge"" is a classic novel written by Thomas Hardy, one of the most prominent authors of English literature. Set in the fictional town of Casterbridge, the story follows the life of Michael Henchard, a complex and tragic character whose impulsive actions shape his destiny.After a night of heavy drinking, Henchard impulsively sells his wife and infant daughter at a fair, an act he deeply regrets. Years later, he becomes a respected and successful businessman and is elected mayor of Casterbridge. However, his past mistakes and the consequences of his impulsive nature continue to haunt him.Exploring themes of fate, redemption, and the destructive power of secrets, Hardy weaves a compelling narrative that delves into the complexities of human nature. The novel offers a vivid portrayal of rural Victorian England, its social dynamics, and the challenges faced by individuals striving for personal and societal transformation.

""The Woodlanders"" is a classic novel written by Thomas Hardy, one of the most renowned English authors of the 19th century. Published in 1887, the story takes place in the fictional rural community of Little Hintock and delves into the complexities of love, relationships, and the consequences of societal expectations. The Woodlanders"" is a classic novel written by Thomas Hardy, one of the most renowned English authors of the 19th century. Published in 1887, the story takes place in the fictional rural community of Little Hintock and delves into the complexities of love, relationships, and the consequences of societal expectations.The protagonist, Grace Melbury, finds herself torn between her childhood love, Giles Winterborne, and the allure of a more socially acceptable suitor, Dr. Edred Fitzpiers. As the narrative unfolds, the novel explores themes of social class, moral dilemmas, and the struggle between personal desires and societal pressures.Thomas Hardy's masterful storytelling, vivid descriptions of nature, and profound exploration of human emotions make ""The Woodlanders"" a captivating and thought-provoking read. It showcases Hardy's signature style of highlighting the struggles and tragedies of ordinary people in rural settings.

""A Pair of Blue Eyes"" is a captivating and emotionally charged novel written by Thomas Hardy. First published in [YEAR], it explores themes of love, passion, and the complexities of human relationships against the backdrop of the Victorian era.The story revolves around the central character, Elfride Swancourt, a young and beautiful woman with striking blue eyes. Elfride finds herself torn between two men: Stephen Smith, a young architect with humble origins, and Henry Knight, an older and more established writer. As she navigates her emotions and societal expectations, Elfride's decisions and the consequences they entail shape her journey of self-discovery.Thomas Hardy's skillful storytelling brings to life the rich and intricate dynamics of love, betrayal, and personal growth. The novel delves into themes of social class, gender roles, and the clash between traditional values and personal desires. With vivid descriptions and insightful character development, ""A Pair of Blue Eyes"" captures the essence of Victorian society and the complexities of human nature.

""Far From the Madding Crowd"" is a classic novel written by renowned British author Thomas Hardy. First published in [YEAR], this captivating tale takes readers on a journey to the pastoral landscapes of Wessex, where the lives of the passionate and independent Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors unfold.Set against the backdrop of rural England, the story explores themes of love, relationships, fate, and the consequences of individual choices. As Bathsheba navigates the complexities of her romantic entanglements with the steadfast Gabriel Oak, the dashing Sergeant Troy, and the reliable Mr. Boldwood, readers are drawn into a richly textured world filled with vivid characters and vivid descriptions of the countryside.With Hardy's meticulous attention to detail, lyrical prose, and insightful observations of human nature, ""Far From the Madding Crowd"" has become a beloved classic of English literature, capturing the essence of Victorian society and offering timeless insights into the human heart.

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Grace Melbury, daughter of a rich local wood-trader, has been raised beyond her family through years of expensive education. Coming home, she finds herself pulled between her love for her childhood friend Giles Winterborne, and the allure of the enigmatic Doctor Fitzpiers. Giles and Edgar have their own admirers too, and the backdrop of the bucolic pastures and woodlands of an impressionistic take on south-west England provides the perfect setting for their story.The Woodlanders was commissioned by Macmillan¿s Magazine in 1884, and was serialized and later published as a novel in 1887. The story¿s themes of infidelity and less-than-blissful marriage were unusual for the time and drew ire from campaigners, but on its publication it garnered immediate critical acclaim. Thomas Hardy later regarded it as the favorite of his stories, and it¿s remained perennially popular as a novel and as a series of adaptations to theatre, opera and film.

King¿s-Hintock Court (dijo el orador, consultando sus notas) es, como todos sabemos, una de las mansiones más imponentes de las que dominan nuestro hermoso Blackmoor o Blakemore Vale. En la ocasión particular que me dispongo a referir se alzaba este edificio, como siempre, en el silencio perfecto de una noche serena y clara, iluminada únicamente por el frío fulgor de las estrellas. Sucedió un invierno de hace mucho tiempo, cuando el siglo XVIII apenas había pasado de su primer tercio. Norte, sur y oeste, todas las ventanas cerradas, todas las cortinas corridas; sólo una ventana del flanco este de la planta superior estaba abierta y una muchacha de unos doce o trece años se encontraba inclinada sobre el alféizar. Bastaba verla para comprender que no se había asomado a contemplar el paisaje, pues se cubría los ojos con las manos. Se hallaba la muchacha en la última de una serie de habitaciones, a las que sólo se accedía a través de un amplio dormitorio anexo. Llegaban de esta estancia las voces de una disputa, mientras el resto de la mansión se sumía en el silencio. Para no oír aquellas voces la muchacha había salido de la cama, se había cubierto con un manto y asomado a respirar el aire de la noche.

Una persona muy distinta de los habituales transeúntes de la localidad escalaba el escarpado camino que conduce a través del pueblecillo costero llamado Street of Wells, y forma un pasillo en aquel Gibraltar de Wessex, la singular península, un tiempo isla y todavía así denominada, que se adelanta como una cabeza de pájaro en el canal inglés. Está enlazada con tierra firme por un largo y angosto istmo de guijarros «arrojados por la furia del mar» y sin igual en su clase en Europa. El caminante era lo que su aspecto indicaba: un joven de Londres, de cualquier ciudad del continente europeo. Nadie podía pensar al verle que su urbanidad consistiera solamente en el vestir. Iba recordando con algo de execración que tres años enteros y ocho meses habían transcurrido desde la última vez que visitó a su padre en aquella solitaria roca donde nació, y todo aquel tiempo lo había invertido en diversas y opuestas camaraderías entre gentes y costumbres mundanas. Lo que le parecía usual y corriente en la isla cuando en ella vivía, le resultaba extraño e insólito después de sus últimas impresiones. Más que nunca semejaba el paraje lo que, según se decía, fue en otro tiempo la antigua isla de Vindilia y la Morada de los Honderos. Ya no eran para él familiares y habituales ideas la altísima roca, las casas sobre casas, los umbrales de la que en cada una se alzaban al nivel de la chimenea antevecina, los jardines que por una de sus tapias colgaban mirando al cielo, las hortalizas que crecían en parcelas al parecer casi verticales, y la compacticidad de toda la isla como un recio y único bloque calizo de cuatro millas de longitud. Todo ahora deslumbraba con sin igual blancura, en contraste del coloreado mar, y el sol relumbraba sobre las infinitas estratificaciones de las paredes de oolita,

A Pair of Blue Eyes describes the love triangle of a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds.Stephen Smith is a socially inferior but ambitious young man who adores her and with whom she shares a country background.Henry Knight is the respectable, established, older man who represents London society.Although the two are friends, Knight is not aware of Smith's previous liaison with Elfride.Elfride finds herself caught in a battle between her heart, her mind and the expectations of those around her - her parents and society. Thomas Hardy, was an English author of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. He regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain.The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Thomas Hardy's fourth novel, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), is widely regarded as his first popular work. Bathsheba Everdene, an independent and vibrant woman, has come to Weatherbury to take up a position as a farmer on the largest estate in the region. Her fearless presence attracts three distinct suitors: gentleman-farmer Boldwood; soldier Sergeant Troy; and dedicated shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in different ways, unsettles her decisions and messes up her life, and tragedy happens, frightening the stability of the whole community. The first of his books set in the fictional area of Wessex, Hardy's book of sudden and slow romance is filled with his haunting descriptions of rural life and scenes, and with firm honesty about sexual relationships.

Un atardecer de finales de verano, antes de que el siglo XIX completara su primer tercio, un hombre y una mujer jóvenes, ésta con un niño en brazos, se aproximaban caminando al pueblo de Weydon Priors, al norte de Wessex. Iban vestidos con sencillez, aunque la espesa capa de polvo acumulada en el calzado y la ropa tras un viaje evidentemente largo pudiera dar la impresión de que iban mal vestidos. El hombre era gallardo, de tez morena y aspecto serio, y el perfil de su cara tenía tan poca inclinación que parecía casi recto. Llevaba una chaqueta corta de pana, más nueva que el resto de su indumentaria, que consistía en un chaleco de fustán con botones de cuerno blancos, pantalones hasta la rodilla del mismo paño, polainas marrones y un sombrero de paja recubierto de brillante lienzo negro. A la espalda, sujeto con una correa, llevaba un capacho, por uno de cuyos extremos sobresalía el puño de una cuchilla de cortar heno y en cuya abertura se veía también un berbiquí. Sus andares, firmes y acompasados, eran los de un campesino hábil, muy distintos de los arrastrados y desgarbados del peón común; con todo, en la manera de levantar y plantar cada pie había una indiferencia tozuda y cínica, muy peculiar, que se manifestaba además en los pliegues del pantalón, que pasaban con regularidad de una pernera a otra conforme avanzaba.

El maestro se marchaba del pueblo y todo el mundo parecía sentirlo. El molinero de Cresscombe le había prestado su pequeño carro blanco y entoldado y el caballo para transportar sus enseres a su ciudad de destino, a unos treinta y dos kilómetros de distancia, ya que el vehículo en cuestión ofrecía sobrada capacidad para ese traslado. La vivienda de la escuela había sido equipada por la administración, y el único trasto engorroso que el maestro poseía, además del cajón de libros, era un piano vertical que había comprado en una subasta el año en que pensó aprender música instrumental. Aunque, pasado el primer entusiasmo, jamás adquirió soltura alguna para tocar, y la dichosa compra se había convertido en una constante molestia cada vez que cambiaba de casa. El párroco, a quien no le gustaba el espectáculo de las mudanzas, se había ausentado durante todo el día. No tenía intención de regresar hasta el atardecer, cuando el nuevo maestro hubiera llegado, estuviera instalado y todo discurriera normalmente otra vez.

Se aproximaba la hora del crepúsculo de un sábado de noviembre, y la vasta extensión de ilimitado erial conocida por el nombre de Egdon Heath se entenebrecía por momentos. Allá en lo alto, la cóncava extensión de nubes blanquecinas que cubría el cielo era como una tienda que tuviera por suelo todo el páramo. Como el firmamento estaba revestido por ese pálido velo y la tierra por la más oscura vegetación, el punto en que ambos se encontraban en el horizonte quedaba claramente definido. Debido a ese contraste, el páramo había adoptado el aspecto de un adelanto de la noche que se hubiera apropiado del lugar antes de la llegada de su hora astronómica: la oscuridad se había adueñado en un alto grado de la tierra, mientras que el día perduraba distintamente en el cielo. De mirar a lo alto, un cortador de aulaga se habría sentido inclinado a seguir su trabajo; de mirar hacia abajo, habría decidido terminar con el haz que tenía entre las manos e irse a casa. Los distantes confines del mundo y del firmamento parecían ser una división del tiempo, además de una división de la materia. La superficie del páramo, por su solo aspecto, le añadía media hora a la tarde; de manera similar podía retrasar el alba, entristecer el mediodía, anticipar la fiereza de tormentas apenas constituidas e intensificar la opacidad de una medianoche sin luna hasta hacerla motivo de miedos y temblores.

El paseante que por nostalgia siga la carretera abandonada que une en línea casi recta, como un meridiano, la ciudad de Bristol con la costa sur de Inglaterra se encontrará durante la segunda mitad del viaje cerca de unos extensos bosques salpicados de manzanares. Allí los árboles, ya sean maderables o frutales, proyectan luces y sombras sobre los arbustos que flanquean la vía convirtiéndolos en jirones. Sus ramas bajas se extienden por encima del camino, en cómoda horizontalidad, como si pudieran tenderse sobre el aire frágil. En un punto cercano a las faldas de Blackmoor Vale, donde ya se avista a unos cuatro o cinco kilómetros la prominente cima de High-Stoy Hill, el camino queda cubierto por la gran cantidad de hojas que cae de los árboles con la llegada del otoño. Cuando los días se vuelven más oscuros en ese lugar solitario, regresan a la mente del ocioso los numerosos cocheros alegres (ahora ya difuntos) que pasaron por la carretera, los pies ampollados que la recorrieron y las lágrimas allí derramadas.

Cierto anochecer de fines de mayo, un hombre de edad mediana que venía de Shaston caminaba con rumbo a su casa situada en el pueblo de Marlott, en el vecino valle de Blackmore o Blackmoor. Tenía el hombre unas piernas bastante flacas y con propensión a torcerse, al echar el paso, un poco hacia la izquierda. De cuando en cuando inclinaba vivamente la cabeza, como si se afirmara en alguna opinión, aunque no iba pensando en nada. Colgaba de su brazo una cesta vacía, de las que se emplean para llevar huevos, y se cubría la cabeza con un sombrero con un punto muy desgastado en el borde, donde al quitárselo rozaba con el pulgar. A mitad de su trayecto hubo de encontrarse con un cura viejo que iba caballero en una yegua gris, tarareando una de esas tonadillas que sirven para aliviar el tedio del camino. ¿Buenas noches tenga usted ¿dijo el hombre de la cesta. ¿Buenas se las dé Dios, sir John ¿le respondió el cura. El viandante siguió su camino, pero luego que hubo andado unos pasos, se volvió y dijo: ¿Oiga usted, señor, y usted dispense, pero el último día de mercado nos encontramos también en este mismo sitio y a esta misma hora, y recuerdo que yo le dije a usted: «Buenas noches», y que usted me contestó: «Dios se las dé a usted muy buenas, sir John», lo mismito que ahora.

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Thomas Hardy, an English author, wrote a book titled Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. The Mellstock Parish Choir, a group of west gallery musicians, and one of their members, Dick Dewy, who develops a romantic interest in the attractive new local schoolmistress Fancy Day, are the protagonists of the novel. Dick first notices Fancy when the choir and fiddlers are making their rounds in Mellstock village on Christmas Eve in the first scene of the book. Dick tries to ingratiate himself into Fancy's life and affections, but the wealthy farmer Shiner and the new parish priest Mr. Maybold are among the other suitors drawn to her attractiveness. Fancy and Dick secretly get engaged, but Fancy's father is initially against it. However, once Fancy stops eating, he changes his mind. Following Fancy's first Sunday service as organist, Maybold drops the question and assures her of a life of great wealth. She agrees, but later finds out that she has already been spoken for when she meets Dick by coincidence. She is warned by Maybold to be truthful with Dick and to break off her engagement with him if she truly meant what she said. How Dick will get her love? Read the complete novel where the author has beautifully crafted the plot.

Two on a Tower: A Romance (1882) is a romantic melodrama novel by English author Thomas Hardy, which is one of his minor works. Two On A Tower is a story of star-crossed love in which Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers against the background of the stellar universe. In his story of star-crossed lovers, Two On A Tower, Hardy depicts the emotional journeys of his two lovers against the backdrop of the cosmos. When Lady Constantine, an unhappy married woman, falls in love with Swithin St. Cleeve, an astronomer who is ten years her junior, she defies all social norms. The lovers are free to be married after her husband dies, but the revelation of an inheritance keeps them apart. This is the fullest expression of Hardy's passion for science and astronomy, as well as his most thorough treatment of the issue of love across class and age, divides.

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Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid is a long short story written by Thomas Hardy before 1883. The story revolves around Margery, a young, delicate, and stunning woman from a lower class. James Hayward, who works in a kiln, is her fiancé. Margery unwittingly saves a man from suicide when she comes upon him while walking to her grandmother's house one day. The man, who happens to be a Baron, is appreciative of her. Margery responds that her most cherished wish is to attend a ball and dance like a royal woman. James offers to fulfill any of her wishes. Margery's wish that live life to the fullest is fulfilled by the Baron. She quickly develops feelings for the Baron, who also expresses interest in her. Both parties are conscious of the barriers preventing such a connection, though. Margery and the Baron are very different socially, and she is already betrothed to a young man who loves her and is unwilling to leave her. This tale by Kipling tracks Margery's psychological development in a setting ruled by both real and fantastical powers.

The Trumpet-Major John Loveday - A soldier in the war with Buonaparte is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

The Return of the Native is Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel. It first appeared in the magazine Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly installments from January to December 1878. Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the Native (1878) centers on two young lovers trapped in an unhappy marriage because they marry for the wrong reasons. The book highlights the problem with romantic idealism, and how we often end up in prisons of our own making. Hardy was an English novelist and poet. The novel's title The Return of the Native refers to the character Clym Yeobright, who returns home to his native Wessex in southwest England after working for a period in Paris.