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100 Selected Stories (Henry, O.)
A collection of 100 of author's finest stories; it describes life south of the Rio Grande and chronicles the activities and concerns of 'the four million' ordinary citizens who inhabited turn-of-the-century New York.
€ 3,³⁵
Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne, N.)
A young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. This book describes the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed.
€ 3,³⁵
Woodlanders (Hardy, T.)
Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous.
€ 3,³⁵
Wessex Tales (Hardy, T.)
Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers.
€ 3,³⁵
Well-Beloved (Hardy, T.)
Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary "Well-Beloved" - in stone, just as he tries to find her in the flesh.
€ 3,³⁵
Under the Greenwood Tree (Hardy, T.)
A portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and irony, it is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel.
€ 3,³⁵
Trumpet-Major (Hardy, T.)
The novel is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. It interweaves a romantic love story of the rivalry of two brothers for the hand of the heroine Anne Garland. It also contains elements of sadness and even tragedy.
€ 3,³⁵
Return of the Native (Hardy, T.)
The central figure of this novel is the returning "native", Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye.
€ 3,³⁵
Pair of Blue Eyes (Hardy, T.)
Rich with biographical echoes, this novel reveals the emergence of the schematic ironies which characterise the author's later works
€ 3,³⁵
Mayor of Casterbridge (Hardy, T.)
Set in the heart of the Wessex, this book charts the rise and downfall of a single 'man of character'. It's moving and contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its force, and features some of the author's episodes and passages of…
€ 3,³⁵
Life's Little Ironies (Hardy, T.)
Contains tales that tenderly re-create a vanishing rural world and scrutinise the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life. This book contains tales and sketches that possess the wealth of description, the portrayal of the…
€ 3,³⁵
Jude the Obscure (Hardy, T.)
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his…
€ 3,³⁵