The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Pier…
A Pair of Blue Eyes is celebrates for its central scene which shocked and stimulated Victorian readers. Forever after it caused Hardy to be embroiled in arguments concering the sexual morality og h…
Three classic stories set in Dorset, about people who lived on Egdon Heath in the 1800s that have themes of my story and romance. Who is the tall stranger who come to the shepherd's cottage? Why ha…
A tale of fatal love and jealousy set against the wild moorland background of Dorset Egdon Heath was a wild and lonely place. The people who were born there, lived there, died there. Expect for Cly…
The proverbial phrase "life's little ironies" was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the…