In drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby at a country fair. Over the following years, he establishes himself as a pillar of society but his shameful secret is never to leave him. Featuring one of Hardy's most memorable characters, the novel portrays Victorian country life.

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community.

Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraordinary: from the poverty of rural Dorset he went on to become the Grand Old Man of English life and letters, his last resting place in Westminster Abbey. This seminal biography, by our leading biographer, covers Hardy's illegitimate birth, his rural ...

Lists all recorded artists from 1837-1901 in over 11,000 individual entries. The volume has been revised and updated to reflect research and carries much additional material. The entries are treated as short essays and contain details of exhibitions and gallery viewings of artists' work.

Although best remembered for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction for a living. This selection of nearly two hundred poems includes pieces, such as During Wind and Rain , Channel Firing , Afterwards , The Darkling Thrush , The Oxen , To Lizbie Browne , and others.

Already an established novelist, for the final 30 years of his life Thomas Hardy abandoned fiction and devoted himself entirely to his first love, poetry. Collected in this volume are his eight books of verse, all the uncollected poems, Domicilium , and the songs from The Dynasts .

The unhappily married Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with Swithin St Cleeve, an astronomer who is ten years her junior. Her husband's death leaves the lovers free to marry, but the discovery of a legacy forces them apart.

Begins with a lengthy introduction in which the author discusses the development and importance of Victorian painters and their work, setting them within the context of that era. The illustrations follow, arranged alphabetically by artist, thus providing a visual account of the era.

Includes an introduction by the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington. This book also includes spy stories as well as answers to questiions like: How can you hide messages in a boiled egg? And why should you always put pepper in your vodka when in Russia?

The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the work. Somerset falls in love with Paula but she, the Laodicean of the title, is torn between his admiration and that of Captain De Stancy.

This is a unique account of the fascination of mathematics and of one of its most compelling exponents in modern times.

From the world's most controversial rock star comes his shocking, confessional, and revealing life story. Marilyn Manson will tour Europe in June and July 1998, and media attention surrounding the book is escalating, with serialisation rights in negotiation with a major music magazine.

A study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. It takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a 'telling' detail? And, when is a metaphor successful?

This work comprises a collection of the poetic works of Thomas Hardy. Hardy's poetry spanned over 50 years from the last half of the 19th century to the period after World War I, and ranges from pessimistic works to those which were witty and fanciful.

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Encapsulates the criticisms of Christianity found in Nietzsche's other works. This title also contains an 8,000-word introduction by its translator, the famous iconoclastic writer H L Mencken.