pastoral fiction

Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. After Alec d'Urberville seduces her and makes her life miserable, she meets and falls in love with Angel Clare.

Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.

Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.

Presents the classic story of Tess, a young woman who finds herself the victim of men, fate, and forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England.

Describes the relationship between a West Texas rancher Jack Carmine, "God's only freeborn soul", and Linda, an exotic dancer from Minnesota whom he rescues. Jack has a profound effect not only on Linda, but also on song writer Bobby McGregor, whom he met in Vietnam, and Vaughn Rhomer, Jack's uncle.

Loyal Blood inalterably changes the course of his life and the fortunes of his family members when he deserts the family's New England farm after accidently killing his lover.

Presents an illustrated re-telling of the escapades of Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger, four animal friends who live along the river in the English countryside.

aBathsheba Everdene arrives in Weatherbury to receive her inheritance and attracts three suitors.

Retired farmer, "Old Jack" Beechum, recalls his long life over the course of an autumn day in 1952.

Bathsheba Everdene is courted by three young men: an adventurer, a young farmer who becomes bailiff of the farm she inherits, and a neighboring farmer.