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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas, Hardy

Oxford Clarenden Press

This is a series of simplified stories, designed as an introduction to literature. The series offers classics, best-sellers, film-titles and original stories. Each book has extensive exercises, a detailed introduction and information about the syllabus. They are published at six levels: level 1 - beginner (300 words); level 2 - elementary (500 words); level 3 - pre-intermediate (1050 words); level 4 - intermediate ( 1650 words); level 5 - upper intermediate (2300 words); level 6 - advanced (3000 words). The series is designed to be suitable for students of English as a foreign language, for students of English as a second language and for reluctant readers.

Under the Greenwood Tree (Gift Classics)

Collins

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Tess of The D'Urbervilles (Collins Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Classics

HARPER/COLLINS

<p>Thomas Hardy devoted the final thirty years of his life entirely to his first love - poetry.  He abandoned fiction at the age of fifty-eight, after a successful career as a novelist during which he produced such masterpieces as Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, and Far from the Madding Crowd.  His first volume of poetry, the 1898 Wessex Poems, was followed by Poems of the Past and the Present, Time's Laughingstocks, Satires of Circumstance, and Moments of Vision.  At the time of his death in 1928, he was known as one of Britain's most distinguished poets.In The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy, James Gibson has compiled the first complete edition of verse by this nineteenth-century Englishman. Included are previously uncollected poems, among which are examples of Hardy's finest work -- "Domicilium" and the songs from The Dynasts.</p>

The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy

Poetry

Macmillan Publishing Co.

The variorum edition of the complete poems of Thomas Hardy

Macmillan

Return of Native

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

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Treasury of World Masterpieces

Octopus Books, Ltd.

subtitled "The Life and Death of a Man of Character", is a novel by British author Thomas Hardy. It is sSet in the fictional town of Casterbridge. this classic novel tells the story of a laborer whosedesperation leads him to a transaction that puts himon a lifelong path of regret and ruin. The book explores the man's fate as the results of his actions follow him and the family he destroyed. The book is one of Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rural England. Additionally it includes five related readings by Hardy, by Edgar Allen Poe and a folk tale, Androcles and the Lion, retold by Joseph Jacobs

The Mayor of Casterbridge with Related Readings

Glencoe

Jude the Obscure

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Selected poems [of] Thomas Hardy (The Penguin poets)

Penguin

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