′Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.′Beautiful, impulsive and spirited, Bathsheba Everdene′s fortunes are changed forever when she inherits her own farm and becomes a woman of independe
′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 wi
′My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!′Challenging the hypocrisy and social conve
A tale of love and loss – the first of Thomas Hardy’s novels to win him widespread recognition and popularity – reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in May 2015. ‘I shall do on
From the author of TESS OF THE D′URBERVILLES, UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE is a tale of love, tragedy, and the changing charm of traditional village life when it is met with the cold reality of modernity.
