The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and the Well-beloved - Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy in general

Tess of the d'Uerberville is in my opinion one of Thomas Hardy's best book. It's about a tragic heroin, who's life is 'blighted' like the stars. Her social class, society, her fate all 'doom' her. When she reluctantly goes to 'claim kin' she meets trouble. Alec Durberfield, who embodies money, the higher social class, who sues his superiority against her, exploiting her, and eventually raping away. Whether she was raped or not, it doesn't really matter, her innocence is taken away, and leads to her downfall. Her baby dies, and rumours in the village spread. Again, she sets on a journey, this time to a natural environment, a ...

Thomas Hardy in general

I was introduced to Hardy's Far from the Madding Croud as a set GCE book. This is a book I have read time and time again. Hardy's novels are set in the fictional county of Wessex around the town of Casterbridge. In Far from the Madding Croud, his heroine Bathsheba Everdine is persued by 3 suitors, Gabriel Oak, a shepherd, Farmer ...

Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

I first read a Hardy book about a year ago - the mayor of casterbridge - just because there happened to be a copy in the house so hey, I read it. I really enjoyed it and didn't find it at all hard work like i have done with other 'classic'. anyway, that is why i bought Far from the madding crowd..... The book is about a girl, or should i say woman? who seems to attract all sorts of admirers and who rather enjoys the complications that it causes and the stress for those poor blokes!!! The way it is written makes you want to keep on reading and i don't know how anyone coped when this was orginally serialised in a magazine because i would never be able to ...