It will be a long time , if ever , before I can again live with Mother . Please let me stay at Pleasance as we arranged , at least until you sell it . If you feel that the upkeep is too much , I could live at the dower house .
When they were again indoors she sat down to a note, but after a while threw aside her pen despairingly. ' No : I cannot do it ! ' she said. ' I can't bend my pride to such a job. Will you write 40 THE WELL-BELOVED 8: 'TOO LIKE THE ...
The novelist and critic Margaret Oliphant , with whom Hardy was personally acquainted , saw Jude as a wholesale attack on the institution of marriage , and Bishop William Walsham How of Wakefield sent Hardy a packet of ashes , having ...
Hardy's two versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. The central figure is a man obsessed both with the search for his ideal woman and...
Thomas Hardy Delphi Classics. object of desire. He perpetuates this cycle throughout his life, constantly looking for the ideal, perfect love and causing emotional wreckage in his wake. The Well-Beloved is not one of Hardy's greatest ...
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
Aphrodite was punishing him simply, as she knew but too well how to punish her votaries when they reverted from the ephemeral to the stable mood. This curse of his heart not aging while his frame moved naturally onward, when was it to ...
Morris, William Morris. “The Haystack in the Flood.” The Defence of Guenevere, The Life and Death of Jason, and Other Poems. London: Oxford University Press, 1914. 131—36. Owenson, Sydney, Lady Morgan. The Wild Irish Girl (1802).
The first of Jean Plaidy's flamboyant French Revolution series.