Product Description: While exploring a cave, two boys divert the course of a stream and set off a strange chain of events.

Channel Firing, Transformations, Hap, Over the Coffin, and Wessex Heights are included in a collection of the late-Victorian novelist's poetry

Critical essays, and selections from other works accompany the text of the novel

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Classic of English Lit.

Literary Studies, Classic Literature

Product Description: Heretofore available only in back-numbers of newspapers and periodicals, these outspoken reactions to life and its expressions represent deliberate, considered self-exposure of the man.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature; Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College...read more

Nature, love, human society, and man's place in the universe are treated in verses that span the wide thematic and sylistic range of the nineteenth-century poet and novelist

Contains seven short stories, the complete text of The Mayor of Casterbridge, numerous poems, excerpts from the Dynasts, and pages from Hardy's journals

Product Description: The apparent suicide of his policeman brother sets Denver crime reporter Jack McEvoy on edge. Surprise at the circumstances of his brother's death prompts Jack to look into a whole series of police suicides and puts him on the trail ofa cop-killer whose victims are selected all to carefully...read more

The romance of Dick Dewy and Fancy Day, which follows its course through the four seasons of one Wessex year, is counterpointed by the activities of the rustic members of the Mellstock church choir

Jude Fawley's aspirations to the dignity and rewards of a scholarly life are continually thwarted by tragic obstacles of fate

Product Description: Winner of the Thomas Hardy Society Book Prize.

Information on the setting, composition, and publication of the novel and selected nineteenthand twentieth-century critical responses to it supplement a tale about the tragic consequences of a man's impetuous sale of his wife and daughter (view table of contents)

A collection of legends and traditional tales describing life and mystery in southwestern England

Product Description: His personal notebooks provide a vivid portrait of Thomas Hardy as a writer and as a man.

Reviews and criticism accompany Hardy's novel, a classic, studying the impact of fate on the life of an innocent woman

Five novels are augmented by a biographical introduction and enhanced with contemporary photographs of the Wessex landscape

These seven stories evoke the superstition, dry humor, and mystery of country tales Hardy might have heard growing up in rural nineteenth-century England

Product Description: The darkly passionate short stories of Thomas Hardy are compelling explorations of love, social class, superstition and legend. This collection contains many of his finest and most representative, and includes "The Withered Arm," an eerie depiction of arcane witchcraft in nineteenth-century England; "Barbara of the House of Grebe," in which a beautiful man's tragic disfigurement by fire is savagely exploited by his rival; "The Son's Veto," showing the cruelty of an educated youth towards his ignorant but tender mother; and "The Distracted Preacher," the story of one man's conflict between heartfelt love and his own sense of moral and civic duty...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A compilation of the personal writings of Thomas Hardy in which some of his prefaces, literary opinions and reminiscences are recorded. There is an annotated appendix included.