
На англ.яз. “ALL THE WHILE SHE WONDERED IF ANY STRANGE GOOD THING MIGHT COME TO HER BEING IN HER ANCESTRAL LAND; AND SOME SPIRIT WITHIN HER ROSE AUTOMATICALLY AS THE SAP IN THE TWIGS. IT WAS UNEXPENDED YOUTH,...
One of Thomas Hardy`s most greatly loved and gentlest books, `Under the Greenwood Tree` is an unashamed idyll and picturesque portrait of the long-vanished pastoral society of early Victorian England. It was the book...
Set in Hardy`s Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title. `A Pure Woman`, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral...
None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than `The Mayor of Casterbridge`. Set in the heart of Hardy`s Wessex, the `partly real, partly dream country` he founded on his native Dorset, it charts...
