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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. "A Group Of Noble Dames" is great short story collection, which includes such works like "The Lady Penelope", "The Duchess Of Hamptonshire", "The Honourable Laura" and others.
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the work. Somerset falls in love with Paula but she, the Laodicean of the title, is torn between his admiration and that of Captain De Stancy, whose old-world romanticism contrasts with Somerset's forward-looking attitude. Paula's vacillation, however, is not only romantic. Her ambiguity regarding...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 1997 |
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the work. Somerset falls in love with Paula but she, the Laodicean of the title, is torn between his admiration and that of Captain De Stancy, whose old-world romanticism contrasts with Somerset's forward-looking attitude.
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the work. Somerset falls in love with Paula but she, the Laodicean of the title, is torn between his admiration and that of Captain De Stancy, whose old-world romanticism contrasts with Somerset's forward-looking attitude.
| Автор | Thomas Hardy, Томас Харди |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
When Elfrise Swanston meets Stephen Smith she is attracted to his handsome face, gentle bearing and the sense of mystery which surrounds him. Although distressed to find that the mystery consists only in the humbleness of his origins, she remains true to their youthful vows. But societal pressures, and the advent of the superior Henry Knight, eventually displace her affections. Knight, however, proves to be an uncompromising moralist who, obsessed with fears about Elfride's sexual past,...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2005 |
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy s novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic. With settings in Wessex and London, the novel also has some strongly autobiographical features, as the blue-eyed heroine, Elfride Swancourt, is based largely on Emma Gifford, who became Thomas Hardy s first wife....
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2010 |
У голубоглазой и одухотворенной Эльфриды не хватает жизненного опыта, поэтому она не может выбрать между двумя мужчинами - архитектором Стивеном Смитом и Генри Найтом. Когда-то друзья стали соперниками, и Эльфрида сталкивается с невероятно трудным выбором. Написанный в решающий для Гарди период жизни, роман "Голубые глаза" более чем любой другой роман показывают литературный талант Гарди.
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| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Pair of Blue Eyes - third published novel, but not his third novel. This is because the very first novel he completed, he never published, and in fact he destroyed the manuscript. This is the story about the love triangle of a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds.
| Автор | Thomas Hardy, Томас Харди |
| Жанр | Билингвы |
| Год | 2018 |
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Pair of Blue Eyes - third published novel, but not his third novel. This is because the very first novel he completed, he never published, and in fact he destroyed the manuscript. This is the story about the love triangle of a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds.
| Автор | Thomas Hardy, Томас Харди |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary stamina and a consistent individuality of style and vision made him a survivor, immune to literary fashion. At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did, even in his own lifetime. He is now recognised not only as a great poet, but as one...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy, Hardy T |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 1994 |
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston.
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston. Blackmail, murder and romance are among the ingredients of Hardy's first published...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 1998 |
The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a 'sensation novel' in the mode of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and storm, flight and pursuit. Anyone who enjoys The Woman in White is likely to enjoy Desperate Remedies. But that is only half the story. Hardy contrived also, in this...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2010 |
Inglise kirjaniku Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) loomingu paremiku moodustavad nn Wessexi-romaanid, mille taustaks on tema sünnikoht Dorset Lõuna-Inglismaal ning mille hulka kuulub ka kirjaniku kõige helgem romaan “Eemal hullutavast ilmakärast”. See on lugu kaunist ja südikast, kuid põikpäisest ja tujukast Bathsheba Everdene’ist ja kolmest olulisest mehest tema elus. Teoses kirjeldatud pealtnäha idüllilises maakohas pole puudu täitumatutest unistustest, murtud tõotustest ja hingelisest...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Контркультура |
Into the sleepy village of Weatherburv arrives one day Bathsheba Everdene, come to take charge of her late uncle's thriving farm. Strong-willed and beautiful, her presence ensures that life in the area will never be the same again. She attracts three suitors, each of whom is very different: faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak; dour gentleman-farmer William Boldwood; and dashing seducer Sergeant Francis (Frank) Troy. Impulsive and independent, Bathsheba's wavering passions commit her to none...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2011 |
Regarded by many as Hardy's prose masterpiece, Far From the Madding Crowd is the tragi-comic story of a woman and three men. Bathsheba Everdene is courted by the brilliant Troy, the obsessive Boldwood and the faithful Gabriel Oak. One is successful in his suit, but only after violence and murder have eliminated the other two. The story is set in the haunting Wessex landscape Hardy had begun to make his own by the time he published the novel in 1874.
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 1991 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Here is one of Thomas Hardy's most popular novels, soon to be released as a major motion picture in May 2015. 'I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die'Independent and spirited, Bathsheba Everdene owns the hearts of three men. Striving to win her love in different ways, their relationships with Bathsheba complicate...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2010 |
The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute' Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Boldwood, seductive Sergeant Troy and devoted Gabriel - making her the object of scandal and...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2012 |