A Changed Man and Other Tales

Thomas Hardy

The stories that make up The Changed Man were written at different points in Hardys life, but this collection was not published until 1913. Hardy wrote really excellent short stories many of his stories had the scope and complexity of a full-length novel. This collection of twelve stories; Tales of soldiers, shepherds, milkmaids and dukes often contain some elements of the creepy or supernatural to some extent.

A Group of Noble Dames

Thomas Hardy

A group of "local historians" of men comes together and tells each other stories about women from the past. All stories are connected with love, marriage to the wrong person and illegitimate children. This says a lot about how women looked at that time. Even those in abundance had very little influence and were often convicted of using it when they had a chance.

A Laodicean. A Story of To-Day

Thomas Hardy

Paula Power, daughter of a wealthy railroad tycoon, inherited De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She instructs a young London architect, George Somerset, to do this work. Somerset falls in love with Paulo. But Paula, the Laodicean title, referring to a person with a warm or indecisive soul, is torn between the admiration of George and the admiration of Captain de Stancy, whose romanticism in the old world contrasts with Somersets visionary gaze.

A Pair of Blue Eyes. A Novel

Thomas Hardy

The heroine of the novel is a young Elfrid. She can easily charm anyone with the look of her blue eyes. In her life, two appear, a young architect and an experienced writer. Former friends become rivals, and Elfrida is faced with a painful choice.

Desperate Remedies. A Novel

Thomas Hardy

Once upon a time there lived in the 19th century a charming young lady from a poor but proud family and a young ambitious gentleman in spirit, but not in origin. And now the boundaries of estates and welfare were ready to be erased under the pressure of the couples feelings and understanding of the girls parents that its not the age of her daughter to attract men and we need to work with what we have. However, the lady turned out to be capricious, fell into a hysteria and forced the family to rush off to hell, as soon as she heard about a marriage proposal from our hero.

Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy

In the novel Far From the Crazed Crowd, Hardy reveals the great and eternal drama of the relationship between a man and a woman. At one time, the vivid, complicated story of the love triangle of the independent and proud Bathsheba, who inherited the farm in the wilderness of Northern England, the peasant Gabriel Oak and the alien from urban civilization sergeant Troy became a real literary scandal. Interestingly, Hardys novel is still considered scandalous and violates the foundations of the foundations of the current society. So how did Hardy manage to touch the strings of the souls of readers of three centuries?

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

Jude is a layman who is cursed by an even larger figure: a pre-feminist minx. In the case of Jude, being associated with a woman in the then strange double is a fatal flaw. And not just any woman: Sue Briadhead, a Bovarian double, is ambivalent, mean and not romantic. Of course, she alone would betray Judahs affection, break his heart. She is the sad queen of drama!

Szafirowe oczy

Thomas Hardy

W wiktoriańskiej Anglii miłość nie jest najważniejszym powodem, by wziąć ślub. Młoda i śliczna Elfride jest uwikłana w klasyczny trójkąt miłosny. Jej serce pała do ambitnego, lecz wywodzącego się z ubogiej rodziny Stephena. Ojciec dziewczyny nie chce jednak dopuścić do tak niepewnego kontraktu matrymonialnego. Zwłaszcza, że na horyzoncie pojawia się kolejny zalotnik - dużo starszy i dobrze usytuowany Henry Knight. Radio BBC 4 stworzyło na podstawie książki słuchowisko, gdzie w rolę Knighta wcielił się Jeremy Irons. Powieść powinna zainteresować miłośników "Lalki" Bolesława Prusa.