: Thomas Hardy
: The Complete Novels of Thomas Hardy
: Charles River Editors
: 9781508085812
: 1
: CHF 1.10
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
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Thomas Hardy was one of the most famous authors of the Victorian era.Hardy wrote classics such as Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure.Similar to Charles Dickens, much of Hardy's writing was critical of English society during his time.This collection includes the following:



NOVELS



Under the Greenwood Tree

Far from the Madding Crowd

The Return of the Native

The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Woodlanders

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Life's Little Ironies

Jude the Obscure

A Pair of Blue Eyes

The Trumpet-Major

Two on a Tower

The Well-Beloved

Desperate Remedies

The Hand of Ethelberta

A Laodicean: A Story of To-day



SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS



Wessex Tales

A Group of Noble Dames

CHAPTER II: THE TRANTER’S


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IT WAS A LONG LOW cottage with a hipped roof of thatch, having dormer windows breaking up into the eaves, a chimney standing in the middle of the ridge and another at each end. The window-shutters were not yet closed, and the fire- and candle-light within radiated forth upon the thick bushes of box and laurestinus growing in clumps outside, and upon the bare boughs of several codlin-trees hanging about in various distorted shapes, the result of early training as espaliers combined with careless climbing into their boughs in later years. The walls of the dwelling were for the most part covered with creepers, though these were rather beaten back from the doorway—a feature which was worn and scratched by much passing in and out, giving it by day the appearance of an old keyhole. Light streamed through the cracks and joints of outbuil