A Laodicean = Равнодушная: книга на английском языке

Юная Эльфрида может очаровать любого взором своих синих глаз. В ее жизни появляются двое – молодой архитектор и умудренный опытом литератор. Бывшие друзья становятся соперниками, а девушке предстоит сделать мучительный выбор.

The Woodlanders, with its thematic portrayal of the role of social class, gender, and evolutionary survival, as well as its insights into the capacities and limitations of language, exhibits Hardy's acute awareness of his era's most troubling dilemmas.

"Джуд Незаметный" - последний и скандально известный роман Томаса Харди, вызвавший волны возмущения в викторианской Англии. Несмотря на строгие нравы того времени, Харди осмелился откровенно написать о сексуальности и обвинить институты брака, образования и религии в несчастье и глубинном одиночестве своих героев, а вместе с ними и всего общества. .Каменщик Джуд мечтал о простых вещах - любовь, брак, семья... Но жизнь не похожа на мечту, и единожды сделанный выбор может оказаться неверным....

The Woodlanders, with its thematic portrayal of the role of social class, gender, and evolutionary survival, as well as its insights into the capacities and limitations of language, exhibits Hardy's acute awareness of his era's most troubling dilemmas.

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. "The Return of the Native" illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies. Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets her heart on marrying him, believing that through him she can leave rural...

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking 'New Woman'. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and...