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"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. Попытка...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. The phrase life's little ironies' is now proverbial, was coined by Hardy as the title for his third volume of short stories. The tales and sketches reflect many of the strengths and themes of the great novels of Hardy. The collection displays the whole range of Hardy's art as a writer of fiction, from fantasy to uncompromising realism, and from the loving re-creation of a vanished rural world to the repressions of fin de siecle bourgeois...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex. Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was '...the past was yesterday; never, the day after', and lastly, of the introverted...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary Well-Beloved - in stone, just as he tries to find her in the flesh. Powerful symbolism marks this romantic fantasy that Hardy has grounded firmly in reality with a characteristically authentic rendering of location,...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Dealing with themes of determinism and inescapable fate, Thomas Hardy's novels are also reknowned for depicting the intimate relationship between character and the environment. Unflinchingly honest in portraying characters and their fortunes, Hardy depicts life with all its harsh realities. Tess of the D'Urbervilles received negative reviews when first published in 1891. Originally criticised as being too pessimistic, it is now regarded as a classic. The story of Tess's painful journey from girl...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
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 |
When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
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 |
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 (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 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.' When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become Mayor. Although he's spent most of his life attempting to repent for his actions, he remains a...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy to realism and from tragedy to comedy. In insisting on the unusual nature of any story worth the telling, and with his gift for irony and compassion, Hardy achieves more in the genre of the short...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Томас Харди - знаменитый и крупнейший английский писатель, поэт поздневикторианской эпохи, который многократно выдвигался на Нобелевскую премию по литературе.Роман "Двое в башне" - одно из самых известных произведений автора. Атмосферная, динамичная истории бросает персонажей в распоряжение сил, находящихся далеко за пределами их контроля. Леди Вивьет, нарушая все правила приличия, влюбляется в Клива, стоящего не просто ниже её по социальному статусу, но и в младшего на 10 лет. В древнем...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
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.
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he’s not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Английский язык, Зарубежная образовательная литература |
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 |
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. A woman and a man… words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her… It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time – today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern England, has something...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Английский язык, Зарубежная образовательная литература |
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd’s cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night… In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives of shepherds...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Английский язык, Зарубежная образовательная литература |