The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in the southern English region of Wessex who yearns to be a scholar. As a youth, Jude teaches himself Greek and...
The Withered Arm
Milkmaid Rhoda Brooks cannot control her jealousy of Gertrude - a beautiful woman who has just married a rich farmer. So when Gertrude appears in her dream she cannot help but...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Melancholy Hussar Of The German Legion
"The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion" is a short story by Thomas Hardy that follows the encounter between a young woman and a homesick soldier. The sparks of passion...
Die Drei Fremden (ungekürzt)
Spannung und Humor pur! Draußen ist es stürmisch und bereits düster, nur in der abgeschiedenen, rustikalen Hütte brennt noch Licht. Ein Schäferehepaar möchte hier zusammen...
Far From The Madding Crowd
Gabriel Oak is a young shepherd. With the savings of a frugal life, and a loan, he has leased and stocked a sheep-farm. He falls in love with a newcomer eight years his junior,...
The Return Of The Native
The Return of the Native is one of Hardy's most popular novels pioneering such themes as sexual politics, thwarted desire, and the conflicting demands of nature and society, a...
Desperate Remedies
A young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to...
Jude L'oscuro
I piani della realtà, di difficile distinzione e ancor più difficile spiegazione, sono il pane quotidiano di Hardy. Che in questo romanzo racconta il conflitto del...
The Unlit Lamp
Radclyffe Hall (born Marguerite Radclyffe Hall on 12 August 1880 – 7 October 1943) was an English poet and author, best known for the novel The Well of Loneliness. The novel...
The Hand Of Ethelberta
The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1876. At the beginning of the book, we are told that Ethelberta was raised in humble...
