Bücher von Thomas Hardy

Full of passion, anger, fatalism and tragedy, Jude the Obscure attacks the inequalities and hypocrisies inherent within Victorian society's attitudes towards marriage, social mobility, education and the role of women. This edition is fully annotated and contains extra material.

Spannung und Humor pur!Draußen ist es stürmisch und bereits düster, nur in der abgeschiedenen, rustikalen Hütte brennt noch Licht. Ein Schäferehepaar möchte hier zusammen mit seinen 19 Gästen die Taufe seiner zweiten Tochter feiern. Doch dabei bleibt es nicht: Innerhalb der nächsten Stunde treffen unabhängig voneinander drei Fremde in der Hütte ein. Was wollen sie? Suchen sie lediglich Schutz vor dem Unwetter, das draußen vor der Hütte tobt? Und welche Verbindung haben die drei Fremden zueinander?Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) war ein englischer Schriftsteller, der während seines Lebens ein umfangreiches Prosawerk, darunter 14 Romane und etliche Kurzgeschichten, sowie beinahe eintausend Gedichte schrieb. Hardy machte eine Architektenlehre in London, arbeitete anschließend als Kirchenrestaurator in seiner Geburtsstadt Dorset und begann dann zu schreiben. Im Zentrum seiner Werke steht oft der Kampf von Einzelnen gegen unheilvolle Kräfte, die teils schicksalhaft, teils menschengemacht sind. Zu seinen berühmtesten Romanen gehören "Tess von d'Urbervilles" (1891) und "Herzen in Aufruhr" (1895).

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 -- Jude the Obscure. But this great novelist 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 Far from the Madding Crowd, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

The Woodlanders (1887) was Thomas Hardy's elventh published novel and the one he claimed to like 'as a story, the best of all'. It is a story of wide appeal, having much to say on themes such as marriage and social class, and with a background revealing its author's profound knowledge and appreciation of many matters, particularly nature and country life. As part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides an authoritative and accurate text which aims to reflect Hardy's original artistic intention and represent the novel as it would have been read by his Victorian readers. The novel is supported by a comprehensive introduction, chronology and accompanying textual apparatus which allows the modern reader to trace the novel's evolution from composition to first publication and through several stages of revision in succeeding editions in the quarter of a century following its first publication.

A strong, passionate woman . . .Three anxious suitors . . .One of the greatest love stories of all time!All set in the rustic English countryside of Hardy's legendary Wessex.This timeless story of Bathsheba Everdene and her lovers has been made into two major motion pictures--a 1967 version starring Julie Christie, Peter Finch, and Alan Bates; and a 2015 version featuring Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Michael Sheen.

Hardy's second published novel, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), the first of his great series of Wessex novels, was originally published anonymously. As part of the Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides readers with an authoritative and accurate text of the novel; moreover it gives access to every revision that Hardy made, and to notations of all the errors introduced by printers' compositors. The annotated text is surrounded by an introduction that gives a very full account of the genesis, the writing and the publishing history of the novel. A range of appendices and comprehensive explanatory notes explore significant aspects of the composition, production and marketing of the novel, touched on in the introduction, to provide a full understanding of the nature and life of this classic work.

Hardy's first published novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), a piece of sensation fiction that encompasses illegitimacy, murder, blackmail, impersonation, and bigamy, was originally published anonymously. Written while, in Hardy's own words, he was 'feeling his way to a method', it nonetheless contains early examples of the kinds of extreme situations and emotions that continued to play a significant role in his later plots. As part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides an authoritative text; full scholarly apparatus that allows the reader to trace Hardy's creative process; an introductory essay discussing the work's composition, publication, and critical reception; and comprehensive explanatory notes.

All the tragic majesty of Thomas Hardy's celebrated novel is captured in this arresting and theatrically exciting adaptation, narrated by a masked Chorus in the style of Greek tragedy (Hardy's favoured form of theatre) and using songs to counterpoint and underline the action. Michael Fry's adaptation provides a clear and thrilling experience and an enlightening and fascinating re-evaluation of a familiar text.Large flexible cast