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A Changed Man And Other Tales

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Thomas Hardy


Eleven short stories. - Summary by david wales

Far From The Madding Crowd, version 2

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Thomas Hardy


Far From The Madding Crowd is Hardy's fourth novel. It centres on the lives of five characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Mr Boldwood…

The British Soldier: His Courage And Humour

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Edward John Hardy


The Reverend Edward John Hardy, ordained in the Church Of Ireland, was a chaplain in the British army for thirty one years. His 1915 collec…

The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)

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Thomas Hardy


Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural …

The Return of the Native (version 2 dramatic reading)

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Thomas Hardy


Clym Yeobright returns home to Egdon Heath, a scattered collection of houses on the isolated Wessex moors, and is caught up in a "love …

Far from the Madding Crowd

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Thomas Hardy


Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so…

The Woodlanders (version 2)

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Thomas Hardy


The Woodlanders is one of Hardy's later novels, although he originally intended it as a successor to Far From The Madding Crowd. It concerns…

A Group of Noble Dames

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Thomas Hardy


The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of…

Jude the Obscure (Version 2)

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Thomas Hardy


Eleven-year-old Jude Fawley, inspired by his teacher Mr. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree, dec…

The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 3)

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Thomas Hardy


In a fit of drunkenness, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter to the highest bidder at a country fair. He lives with regret and…

The Woodlanders

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Thomas Hardy


The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, …

Wessex Tales

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Thomas Hardy


Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introdu…

Desperate Remedies

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Thomas Hardy


Cytherea Graye is poor, but accepts a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had not b…

Jude the Obscure

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Thomas Hardy


Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…

The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy


This is a collection of essays by John Galsworthy. A multitude of subjects is covered, but the essays are connected by an artistic spirit, a…

The Hand of Ethelberta

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Thomas Hardy


Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband …

Life's Little Ironies; A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A …

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Thomas Hardy


Eighteen short stories by a master story teller. - Summary by david wales

The Mayor of Casterbridge

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Thomas Hardy


The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character&…

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 16: A Good Thing

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Frank Tousey


Bruce Hardy and Joe Ramsey are chums from Hurricane Hill Military Academy in Jew Jersey. From their studies to sports and even their daring …

The Secret of the Old Mill (Version 3 Dramatic Reading)

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Franklin W. Dixon


Teenage sleuths Frank and Joe Hardy have begun to make a name for themselves in their home city of Bayport, but their mother would very much…

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