Hardy, Thomas

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

Contains an authoritative text of a poor stone carver, Jude Fawley, who is torn between his dreams of a university education and the desires of his own carnal nature and also includes background information on the novel as well as Hardy's nonfictional writings and poems and comments by critics on his other works.

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.

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