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The mayor of Casterbridge

an authoritative text, backgrounds criticism
1977

The life and death of the Mayor of Casterbridge

the story of a man of character
1999
Tells the story about a headstrong man who rises to become the richest corn merchant and chief citizen in his town. Despite his great wealth and power, however, the man can not forget his past.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

a pure woman
1999
An English woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control.

Jude the obscure

1996
The story of Jude Fawley, an impoverished stonemason who aspires to the ministry and fails to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves in Victorian society.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

a pure woman
2006
Thomas Hardy's classic novel about a young woman who finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England; and contains explanatory notes and introduction.

Jude the obscure

1999
The story of Jude Fawley, an impoverished stonemason who aspires to the ministry and fails to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves in Victorian society.

Far from the madding crowd

2002
Gabriel Oak, in love with the beautiful heiress Bathsheba Everdene, waits patiently while she works her way through the hearts of local men.

The return of the native

1999
Clym Yeobright, tired of Paris city life, returns to Egdon Heath to open a school. There he marries a pleasure-loving girl and tragedy follows.

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