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Thomas Hardy Collection Volume Two

Three novels of love, ambition, and nineteenth-century English society.

This volume includes three of the greatest works by the iconic Victorian novelist.

The Return of the Native: Eustacia Vye yearns to escape the village of Egdon Heath, but her marriage to a well-traveled man doesn’t bring the adventure she craves, in this novel that brilliantly evokes the dangerous allure of romantic fantasies.

Tess of the D’Urbervilles: A young woman struggles against tradition and circumstance in this story of love, class, and deceit.

The Woodlanders: Grace Melbury is torn between a wealthy, unfaithful husband and the humble woodsman she truly loves in this novel that examines the perils of social ambition.

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) gave up a career in architecture to devote himself to writing. He is now regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English literature. His best-remembered works, all set in the fictional county of Wessex, are Jude the Obscure, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, and Far from the Madding Crowd. 

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