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1) The return of the native

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Hardy, Thomas

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Eustacia Vye longs to escape from Egdon Heath, but the man she chooses to save her longs to stay. Out of their struggle, the unfulfilled passion of his heroine, and the daily rhythms of late-nineteenth-century rural life, Hardy builds a drama fully worthy of the magnificent stage on which he places it. The Return of the Native is dominated by the brooding presence of Egdon Heath, located in Thomas Hardy’s imaginary Wessex, and in no other book...

2) Desperate Remedies

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Hardy, Thomas

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A young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the discovery that Edward is already engaged to a woman whom he does not love, and the urgent need to support a sick brother drive Cytherea to accept the hand of Aeneas Manston, Miss...

3) A Group of Noble Dames

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Hardy, Thomas

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A Group of Noble Dames is an 1891 collection of short stories written by English author Thomas Hardy. The stories are contained by a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or 18th century.

Part I—Before Dinner

The First Countess of Wessex by the local historian

Barbara of the House of Grebe by the old surgeon

The

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4) The Well-Beloved

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Hardy, Thomas

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Set in the Isle of Slingers modelled on the Isle of Portland the novel continues to explore Hardy's favourite themes of relationships, exploration of human nature and human nature. The story follows Jocelyn Pierston, a celebrated sculptor who tries to create an image of his ideal woman in stone and attempting to find her in the flesh.

5) The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid

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Hardy, Thomas

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A fine-framed dark-mustachioed gentleman, in dressing-gown and slippers, was sitting there in the damp without a hat on. With one hand he was tightly grasping his forehead, the other hung over his knee. The attitude bespoke with sufficient clearness a mental condition of anguish. He was quite a different being from any of the men to whom her eyes were accustomed. She had never seen mustachios before, for they were not worn

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6) A Laodicean : a Story of To-day

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Hardy, Thomas

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The Laodicean (someone whose religious beliefs are “lukewarm”) of the title is Paula Power who bought the ancient castle De Stancy which she is determined to restore. Being of a modern frame of mind, she has the telegraph connected to the castle – and uses it all the time in the course of the story. George Somerset is a young architect who is invited to compete for the chance of the commission to restore the castle and who falls in love with...

7) Time's Laughingstocks, and Other Verses

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Hardy, Thomas

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This is a Project Gutenberg edition released in 2014. "Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses" by Thomas Hardy is a collection of poetry reflecting Hardy's contemplations on the passage of time, human nature, and existential themes. Published in 1909, the verses explore the ironies and tragedies of life, often with a melancholic tone. Hardy’s poetry in this collection reveals his deep engagement with the fleeting nature of existence and the often...