Tess of the D'Urbervilles/ Far from the Madding Crowd/ The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbavilles:

Into this story of a simple but beautiful country girl's seduction by another man which causes her husband to leave her on their wedding night and thereby precipitates a course of events that ends in murder, Hardy wove a luminous tenderness and longing. "I have never been able to put on paper all that she is, or was to me" he said.

Far From the Madding Crowd:

Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love.

The Mayor of Casterbridge:

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper.

Please note this copy has some tears and light scuffs on the edges of the dust jacket. This copy also has some marks on the covers.

ISBN: n/a

Size: Hardcover, 1122 pages

Publisher: Guild Publishing

Year: 1988