Thomas Hardy

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Return of the Native (version 2 dramatic reading)

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Thomas Hardy - Return of the Native (version 2 dramatic reading)

Clym Yeobright returns home to Egdon Heath, a scattered collection of houses on the isolated Wessex moors, and is caught up in a «love pentagon» which includes: his cousin, Thomasin Yeobright; the shadowy...

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General Fiction

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (version 3)

«Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented» is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated...

Bob Neufeld 16 hours 21 minutes

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Poetry

Thomas Hardy - Song of the Soldiers' Wives

Thomas Hardy is regarded as one of the best English novelists. His novels are heartbreaking, unconventional, sad and lyrical. He also wrote many poems. This is one of the best. This is the weekly poem for the week...

April Gonzales and 14 more 27 minutes

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General Fiction

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (Version 2)

Eleven-year-old Jude Fawley, inspired by his teacher Mr. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree, decides to adopt the same course for himself. Raised by his great-aunt, he...

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Thomas Hardy - Hand of Ethelberta

Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband died two weeks after the wedding. Her father-in-law, Lord Petherwin, died...

Simon Evers 13 hours 46 minutes

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Romance

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (version 2)

Tess of the d'Urbervilles subtitled, «A Pure Woman,» is the story of a young working woman named Tess Durbeyfield who is sent by her father to visit wealthy relatives. Her encounter with Alec d'Urberville changes her...

Alisson Veldhuis 15 hours 23 minutes

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Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)

Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural and small-town England in the mid-1800s. In the original subtitle, Hardy...

Bruce Pirie 12 hours 51 minutes

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General Fiction

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Thomas Hardy - Well-Beloved

'The Well-Beloved' tells the story of Jocelyn Pierston and his love for three generations of women — the grandmother, her daughter and grand-daughter over a period of forty years. Pierston is seeking for perfection in...

Simon Evers 6 hours 28 minutes

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Thomas Hardy - Wessex Tales

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 introduction to his writing. Though not as comprehensive as his major works they do...

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Thomas Hardy - Desperate Remedies

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 been able to marry. Cytherea in turn loves a young architect, Edward...

Philippa and 5 more 15 hours 55 minutes

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General Fiction

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Thomas Hardy - Two On A Tower

The plot concerns two – literally starcrossed – lovers: Swithin St. Cleeve, a very young amateur astronomer, and Viviette Constantine, an unhappily married and abandoned woman 8 or 9 years his senior. Each night...

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Thomas Hardy - Woodlanders (version 2)

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 the life and loves of Giles Winterborne, Grace Melbury, Edred Fitzpiers,...

Tadhg 13 hours 27 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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