THE WOODLANDERS COLLINS — THOMAS HARDY

Yayınevi COLLINS CLASSICS Yazar THOMAS HARDY Dil İNGİLİZCE Yıl 2010

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best loved essential classics My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances When I see what you know what you have read and seen and thought I feel what a nothing I am Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world Tess of the D Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she attempts to escape the poverty of her background seeking wealth by claiming connection with the aristocratic D Urberville family It is through Tess s relationships with two very different men that Hardy tells the story of his tragic heroine and exposes the double standards of the world that she inhabits with searing pathos and heart rending sentiment

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best loved essential classics My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances When I see what you know what you have read and seen and thought I feel what a nothing I am Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world Tess of the D Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she attempts to escape the poverty of her background seeking wealth by claiming connection with the aristocratic D Urberville family It is through Tess s relationships with two very different men that Hardy tells the story of his tragic heroine and exposes the double standards of the world that she inhabits with searing pathos and heart rending sentiment

Grace Melbury the only daughter of a timber merchant arrives home in Little Hintock after an expensive education and her father looks to find a husband for her There are two rivals for her hand Giles Winterborne a good hearted yeoman and her childhood sweetheart and Edred Fitzpiers an ambitious young doctor of good family Fitzpiers wins her but the mismatch brings unhappiness not just to the young couple but to a wider circle in the woodland community The Woodlanders is one of Hardy s most powerful works and the one he liked best With brooding sexual undertones it addresses themes about which the author held strong views the laws of divorce the inequalities of society and the uncertainty of land tenure

Grace Melbury the only daughter of a timber merchant arrives home in Little Hintock after an expensive education and her father looks to find a husband for her There are two rivals for her hand Giles Winterborne a good hearted yeoman and her childhood sweetheart and Edred Fitzpiers an ambitious young doctor of good family Fitzpiers wins her but the mismatch brings unhappiness not just to the young couple but to a wider circle in the woodland community The Woodlanders is one of Hardy s most powerful works and the one he liked best With brooding sexual undertones it addresses themes about which the author held strong views the laws of divorce the inequalities of society and the uncertainty of land tenure