The Collected Works of Thomas Hardy E-Book

Thomas Hardy.

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Seitenzahl: 11647

Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 13090 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman • Far from the Madding Crowd • Jude the Obscure • The Return of the Native • The Mayor of Casterbridge • Far from the Madding Crowd • The Great English Short-Story Writers • A Pair of Blue Eyes • Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire • The Woodlanders • Desperate Remedies • Wessex Tales • The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon • Two on a Tower • Time's Laughingstocks, and Other Verses • Wessex Poems and Other Verses • Life's Little Ironies • The Return of the Native • The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament • The Trumpet-Major • Poems of the Past and the Present • A Changed Man, and Other Tales • A Laodicean: A Story of To-day • The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters • The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid • A Group of Noble Dames • Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces • Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses • Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman • Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses • etc.

Leseprobe

Contents

A PAIR OF BLUE EYES

PREFACE

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII

Chapter XVIII

Chapter XIX

Chapter XX

Chapter XXI

Chapter XXII

Chapter XXIII

Chapter XXIV

Chapter XXV

Chapter XXVI

Chapter XXVII

Chapter XXVIII

Chapter XXIX

Chapter XXX

Chapter XXXI

Chapter XXXII

Chapter XXXIII

Chapter XXXIV

Chapter XXXV

Chapter XXXVI

Chapter XXXVII

Chapter XXXVIII

Chapter XXXIX

Chapter XL

LIFE’S LITTLE IRONIESa set of taleswith some colloquial sketchesentitled A FEW CRUSTED CHARACTERS

CONTENTS

THE SON’S VETO

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

FOR CONSCIENCE’ SAKE

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

A TRAGEDY OF TWO AMBITIONS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

ON THE WESTERN CIRCUIT

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

TO PLEASE HIS WIFE

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

THE MELANCHOLY HUSSAR OF THE GERMAN LEGION

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

THE FIDDLER OF THE REELS

A TRADITION OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FOUR

A FEW CRUSTED CHARACTERS

TONY KYTES, THE ARCH-DECEIVER

THE HISTORY OF THE HARDCOMES

THE SUPERSTITIOUS MAN’S STORY

ANDREY SATCHEL AND THE PARSON AND CLERK

OLD ANDREY’S EXPERIENCE AS A MUSICIAN

ABSENT-MINDEDNESS IN A PARISH CHOIR

THE WINTERS AND THE PALMLEYS

INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF MR. GEORGE CROOKHILL

NETTY SARGENT’S COPYHOLD

A LAODICEAN: A STORY OF TO-DAY

By Thomas Hardy

Contents

PREFACE.

BOOK THE FIRST. GEORGE SOMERSET.

BOOK THE SECOND. DARE AND HAVILL.

BOOK THE THIRD. DE STANCY.

BOOK THE FOURTH. SOMERSET, DARE AND DE STANCY.

BOOK THE FIFTH. DE STANCY AND PAULA.

BOOK THE SIXTH. PAULA.

THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA—A COMEDY IN CHAPTERS by Thomas Hardy.

THE WELL-BELOVED

A SKETCH OF A TEMPERAMENT

By Thomas Hardy

PREFACE

PART FIRST — A YOUNG MAN OF TWENTY.

1. I. A SUPPOSITITIOUS PRESENTMENT OF HER

1. II. THE INCARNATION IS ASSUMED TO BE TRUE

1. III. THE APPOINTMENT

1. IV. A LONELY PEDESTRIAN

1. V. A CHARGE

1. VI. ON THE BRINK

1. VII. HER EARLIER INCARNATIONS

1. VIII. 'TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING'

1. IX. FAMILIAR PHENOMENA IN THE DISTANCE

PART SECOND — A YOUNG MAN OF FORTY

2. I. THE OLD PHANTOM BECOMES DISTINCT

2. II. SHE DRAWS CLOSE AND SATISFIES

2. III. SHE BECOMES AN INACCESSIBLE GHOST

2. IV. SHE THREATENS TO RESUME CORPOREAL SUBSTANCE

2. V. THE RESUMPTION TAKES PLACE

2. VI. THE PAST SHINES IN THE PRESENT

2. VII. THE NEW BECOMES ESTABLISHED

2. VIII. HIS OWN SOUL CONFRONTS HIM

2. IX. JUXTAPOSITIONS

2. X. SHE FAILS TO VANISH STILL

2. XI. THE IMAGE PERSISTS

2. XII. A GRILLE DESCENDS BETWEEN

2. XIII. SHE IS ENSHROUDED FROM SIGHT

PART THIRD — A YOUNG MAN OF SIXTY

3. I. SHE RETURNS FOR THE NEW SEASON

3. II. MISGIVINGS ON THE RE-EMBODIMENT

3. III. THE RENEWED IMAGE BURNS ITSELF IN

3. IV. A DASH FOR THE LAST INCARNATION

3. V. ON THE VERGE OF POSSESSION

3. VI. THE WELL-BELOVED IS—WHERE?

3. VII. AN OLD TABERNACLE IN A NEW ASPECT

3. VIII. 'ALAS FOR THIS GREY SHADOW, ONCE A MAN!'

THE TRUMPET-MAJOR JOHN LOVEDAY

TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES

A Pure Woman

Faithfully presented by

Thomas Hardy

CONTENTS

Phase the First: The Maiden, I-XI

End of Phase the First

Phase the Second: Maiden No More, XII-XV

End of Phase the Second

Phase the Third: The Rally, XVI-XXIV

End of Phase the Third

Phase the Fourth: The Consequence, XXV-XXXIV

End of Phase the Fourth

Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays, XXXV-XLIV

End of Phase the Fifth

Phase the Sixth: The Convert, XLV-LII

End of Phase the Sixth

Phase the Seventh: Fulfilment, LIII-LIX

THE ROMANTIC ADVENTURES OF A MILKMAID

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

'BARON VON XANTEN'

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

DEAR MARGERY, -

X.

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

VON XANTEN.

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

'JIM'S MARRIED.'

CHAPTER XVII

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE

CONTENTS

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

POSTSCRIPT

BOOK FIRST

THE THREE WOMEN

I

A Face on Which Time Makes But Little Impression

II

Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble

III

The Custom of the Country

IV

The Halt on the Turnpike Road

V

Perplexity among Honest People

VI

The Figure against the Sky

VII

Queen of Night

VIII

Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody

IX

Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy

X

A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion

XI

The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman

BOOK SECOND

THE ARRIVAL

I