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Book The Melancholy Hussar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher : Collector's Library
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781904919506
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book The Melancholy Hussar written by Thomas Hardy and published by Collector's Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion

Download or read book The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion written by Thomas Hardy and published by Clipper Audio. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving tale from the great writer Thomas Hardy, exposing the inequality of nineteenth century society In this short tragedy, the honourable behaviour of a young woman and the foreign soldier with whom she is in love is confronted by the hypocritical respectability of English society. The story ends in betrayal and execution. The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion contains all the elements of pastoral tragedy that are found in Hardy's novels, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Far From the Madding Crowd.

Book The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion and Other Stories

Download or read book The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion and Other Stories written by Thomas Hardy and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-03-14 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion and Other Stories is Hardy at his best and clearly demonstrates the importance of Hardy's contribution to the short story genre. The title story was inspired by an account of some soldiers who had been shot for desertion....

Book The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion  in  The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories 1888 1900  Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wilson and Kristin Brady   Penguin Classics

Download or read book The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion in The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories 1888 1900 Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wilson and Kristin Brady Penguin Classics written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion  Penguin Classics

Download or read book Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion Penguin Classics written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Notable Stories

Download or read book Three Notable Stories written by John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Duke of Argyll and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Distracted Preacher

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  • Author : Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher : Melville House
  • Release : 2012-08-28
  • ISBN : 1612191118
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book The Distracted Preacher written by Thomas Hardy and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the master of Victorian tragedy, the surprisingly comic adventures of a man caught between romance and religion. When young Mr. Stockdale arrives in a small village to fill in for the Methodist minister, he finds himself pining for his comely new landlady. But she leads a mysterious life, keeping odd hours and speaking in hushed tones. As his love for her grows, he’s soon at the center of a hilarious high-stakes adventure, complete with slapstick, hijinks, and a marauding band of cross-dressers. And he’s forced to choose: follow his heart or his higher purpose? *** This is a Hybrid Book. Melville House HybridBooks combine print and digital media into an enhanced reading experience by including with each title additional curated material called Illuminations — maps, photographs, illustrations, and further writing about the author and the book. The Melville House Illuminations are free with the purchase of any title in the HybridBook series, no matter the format. Purchasers of the print version can obtain the Illuminations for a given title simply by scanning the QR code found in the back of each book, or by following the url also given in the back of the print book, then downloading the Illumination in whatever format works best for you. Purchasers of the digital version receive the appropriate Illuminations automatically as part of the ebook edition.

Book Life s Little Ironies

Download or read book Life s Little Ironies written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Interlopers at the Knap

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  • Author : Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2009-04-16
  • ISBN : 1427045496
  • Pages : 70 pages

Download or read book Interlopers at the Knap written by Thomas Hardy and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the let...

Book The Withered Arm

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  • Author : Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
  • Release : 2021-12-02
  • ISBN : 8726959860
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book The Withered Arm written by Thomas Hardy and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milkmaid Rhoda Brooks cannot control her jealousy of Gertrude - a beautiful woman who has just married a rich farmer. So when Gertrude appears in her dream she cannot help but reach out and grab the arm of the woman she wishes she was. As Gertrude's arm begins to wither away in real life and no physicians are able to give her a solution, she must turn to a conjurer. Considered one of Hardy's most successful short stories, 'The Withered Arm' is unmissable for those who enjoyed the suspense of Edgar Allen Poe's 'A Tell-Tale Heart Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an architect by trade, but he is best remembered for the major contributions that he made to the literary world. He wrote both novels and poetry and was famed for his pessimistic outlook. The most notable of his works include 'Jude The Obscure', 'Far from the Madding Crowd', and 'Tess of the d'Ubervilles'. His gloomy prose is ideal for fans of Dickens, Defoe, and Keats.

Book An Imaginative Woman

Download or read book An Imaginative Woman written by Thomas Hardy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short story written by Thomas Hardy was published in Wessex. This tells of a woman, a wife and a mother who aspires to be a poet and who falls in love with a male poet she never meets. As a Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.

Book Kingdom of Shadows

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Furst
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2001-03-13
  • ISBN : 0375506802
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Kingdom of Shadows written by Alan Furst and published by Random House. This book was released on 2001-03-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kingdom of Shadows must be called a spy novel, but it transcends genre, as did some Graham Greene and Eric Ambler classics.”—The Washington Post Paris, 1938. As Europe edges toward war, Nicholas Morath, an urbane former cavalry officer, spends his days working at the small advertising agency he owns and his nights in the bohemian circles of his Argentine mistress. But Morath has been recruited by his uncle, Count Janos Polanyi, a diplomat in the Hungarian legation, for operations against Hitler’s Germany. It is Morath who does Polanyi’s clandestine work, moving between the beach cafés of Juan-les-Pins and the forests of Ruthenia, from Czech fortresses in the Sudetenland to the private gardens of the déclassé royalty in Budapest. The web Polanyi spins for Morath is deep and complex and pits him against German intelligence officers, NKVD renegades, and Croat assassins in a shadow war of treachery and uncertain loyalties, a war that Hungary cannot afford to lose. Alan Furst is frequently compared with Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, and John le Carré, but Kingdom of Shadows is distinctive and entirely original. It is Furst at his very best. Praise for Kingdom of Shadows “Kingdom of Shadows offers a realm of glamour and peril that are seamlessly intertwined and seem to arise effortlessly from the author’s consciousness.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Subtly spun, sensitive to nuances, generous with contemporary detail and information discreetly conveyed. . . . It’s hard to overestimate Kingdom of Shadows.”—Eugen Weber, Los Angeles Times “A triumph: evocative, heartfelt, knowing and witty.”—Robert J. Hughes, The Wall Street Journal “Imagine discovering an unscreened espionage thriller from the late 1930s, a classic black- and- white movie that captures the murky allegiances and moral ambiguity of Europe on the brink of war. . . . Nothing can be like watching Casablanca for the first time, but Furst comes closer than anyone has in years.”—Walter Shapiro, Time

Book Thomas Hardy and Desire

Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Desire written by Jane Thomas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work. It demonstrates the sustained nature of his thinking about desire, its relationship to the social and symbolic network in which human subjectivity is constituted and art's potential to offer fulfilment to the desiring subject.

Book The Rights of Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Paine
  • Publisher : Standard Ebooks
  • Release : 2021-04-26T22:00:31Z
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Rights of Man written by Thomas Paine and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-04-26T22:00:31Z with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Paine wrote the first part of The Rights of Man in 1791 as a response to the furious attack on the French Revolution by the British parliamentarian Edmund Burke in his pamphlet Reflections on the Revolution in France, published the previous year. Paine carefully dissects and counters Burke’s arguments and provides a more accurate description of the events surrounding the revolution of 1789. He then reproduces and comments on the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens” promulgated by the National Assembly of France. The manuscript of The Rights of Man was placed with the publisher Joseph Johnson, but that publisher was threatened with legal action by the British Government. Paine then gave the work to another publisher, J. S. Jordan, and on the advice of William Blake, Paine went to France to be out of the way of possible arrest in Britain. The Rights of Man was published in March 1791, and was an immediate success with the British public, selling nearly a million copies. A second part of the book, subtitled “Combining Principle and Practice,” was published in February 1792. It puts forward practical proposals for the establishment of republican government in countries like Britain. The Rights of Man had a major impact, leading to the establishment of a number of reform societies. After the publication of the second part of the book, Paine and his publisher were charged with seditious libel, and Paine was eventually forced to leave Britain and flee to France. Today The Rights of Man is considered a classic of political writing and philosophy. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Book Thomas Hardy

Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Martin Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive textual analysis of all of Hardy's collected short stories, tracing the development of each from manuscript, through newspaper serial versions, galley proofs and revises to collected editions in volume form. It is no surprise to discover that Hardy's capacity for inveterate revision is manifested in his tales as it was in his novels. Even those stories for which he professed little regard were meticulously and continuously revised, in some cases more than thirty years after their first publication. The alterations extend to the most minute details of plot, landscape, characterisation and style, as well as the restoration of bowdlerised passages which had been demanded by serial magazines. This study will play a major role in elevating the importance of this genre in Hardy's prolific output and will illuminate his textual practices - an area of considerable and growing interest to a large number of scholars and students.

Book The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874 1888

Download or read book The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874 1888 written by Thomas Hardy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "See if she is dark or fair, and if you can, notice if her hands be white; if not, see if they look as though she had ever done housework, or are milker's hands like mine." So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new bride in 'The Withered Arm', the title story in this selection of Hardy's finest short stories. Hardy's first story, 'Destiny and a Blue Cloak' was written fresh from the success of Far From the Madding Crowd. Beautiful in their own right, these stories are also testing-grounds for the novels in their controversial sexual politics, their refusal of romance structures, and their elegiac pursuit of past, lost loves. Several of the stories in The Withered Arm were collected to form the famous volume, Wessex Tales (1888), the first time Hardy denoted 'Wessex' to describe his fictional world. The Withered Arm is the first of a new two-volume selection of Hardy's short stories, edited with an introduction and notes by Kristin Brady.