Thomas Hardy eBooks
eBooks di Thomas Hardy editi da Angelo Pereira di Formato Mobipocket
Jude the Obscure (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #72]. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Thomas Hardy - Angelo Pereira, 2016 -
"His style touches sublimity." —T. S. Eliot"There is no other novelist alive with the breadth of sympathy, the knowledge or the power for the creation of Jude." —H. G. WellsJude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking ‘New Woman’. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. "Jude the Obscure", Hardy’s last novel, caused a public furor when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #65]. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Thomas Hardy - Angelo Pereira, 2016 -
"Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination." —Irving Howe"What a commonplace genius he has; or a genius for the commonplace — I don’t know which." —D. H. Lawrence"The greatest tragic writer among English novelists." —Virginia Woolf"A singular beauty and charm." —Henry JamesHardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d’Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec d’Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies in infancy. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer Tess love and salvation, but he rejects her — on their wedding night — after learning of her past. Emotionally bereft, financially impoverished, and victimized by the self-righteous rigidity of English social morality, Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act.