Hardy T.

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.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) 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 fi nds 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 poverty soon threatens to ruin them.

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) 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 life and fi nd fulfi lment elsewhere. But Clym has dreams of his own, and they have little in common with Eustacia’s. Their unhappy marriage causes havoc in the lives of those close to them: Damon Wildeve, Eustacia’s former lover, Clym’s mother and his cousin Thomasin.

The Return of the Native

«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 следовать собственным путём к личному счастью сталкивается с непредсказуемыми и трагическими последствиями... Читайте заруюежную литературу в оригинале!

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