wessex (england)

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

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

Presents the annotated 1983 Clarendon edition of Thomas Hardy's nineteenth-century story of a young woman who finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England, and includes critical reviews and interpretations, seven poems by Hardy, and other reference materials.

A young woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England.

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.