Classics & Literature
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Thomas Hardy's novel follows Stephen Smith and his difficult relationships with Elfride Swancourt and Henry Knight, exploring love, class, pride, fate, and the pressures of social convention
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Books by Thomas Hardy
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Poetry & Great Verse
Poems of the past and the present
Thomas Hardy’s Poems of the Past and the Present is a collection built from memory, history, landscape, love, regret, and the uneasy awareness that the present is always carrying the dead with it. Hardy frequently places an intimate human feeling against a larger background: a relationship
Classics & Literature
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy traces the rise and fall of Michael Henchard, whose impulsive act in his youth shapes decades of guilt, ambition, love, rivalry, and social change
Art & Aesthetics
Under the greenwood tree; or, the mellstock quire a rural painting of the dutch school
Under the Greenwood Tree is one of Thomas Hardy’s warmest rural novels, centered on the village community of Mellstock and the musicians who form its church choir. The story follows the relationships, rivalries, courtships, and changing traditions that unfold as modern ideas begin to enter an
Poetry & Great Verse
Wessex poems and other verses
Wessex Poems and Other Verses gathers Thomas Hardy’s poetry shaped by the landscapes, dialects, people, and remembered traditions of the English region he called Wessex. Hardy’s countryside is never merely picturesque
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