23 Results for : hardy’s
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Wessex Tales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 634min
Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories including "The Three Strangers", "The Withered Arm", and "The Distracted Preacher", deals with a number of timeless themes seen so often in Hardy’s work: marriage, class, revenge, and disappointed love. Many of the tales have a supernatural tinge, and all are set around Hardy’s much loved homeland.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neville Jason. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000757/bk_naxo_000757_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Return of the Native , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 906min
This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy’s most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moor where proud Eustacia fervently awaits a clandestine meeting with her lover, Damon Wildeve. But Eustacia’s dreams of escape are not to be realized - neither Wildeve nor the returning native Clym Yeobright can bring her salvation. Injured by forces beyond their control, Hardy’s characters struggle vainly in the net of destiny. In the end, only the face of the lonely heath remains untouched by fate in this masterpiece of tragic passion, a tale that perfectly epitomizes the author’s own unique and melancholy genius. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jill Masters. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000084/bk_bkot_000084_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Under the Greenwood Tree , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 403min
A wonderfully evocative tale of the courtship of Fancy Day, newly arrived schoolmistress, by Dick Dewy, carrier of goods, during the four seasons of one year in Wessex. Most of Hardy’s work had tragedy woven into the narrative but Under the Greenwood Tree is full of whimsy and good humour. The story is not without its serious comment, however, as Hardy reflects on class division and the disappearance of heritage in the rural community. Parson Maybold, a rival for Fancy’s hand, has plans to install a mechanical organ in his church thereby replacing the services of the choir. The village rustics, who resent this intrusion, bring much comedy to the tale and were such a successful addition that the author used the idea in several of his later works. The book is Hardy’s most appealing statement - revealing his respect and reverence for musical tradition, the countryside, and the simple nature of the people who inhabited its fragile communities. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000038/bk_assm_000038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Jude the Obscure: Penguin English Library, Hörbuch, Digital, 374min
Penguin Classics presents Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Samuel West. As you got older...you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and scorched it. If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man. Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have left earlier marriages. Ironically, when tragedy tests their union it is Sue, the modern emancipated woman, who proves unequal to the challenge. Hardy’s fearless exploration of sexual and social relationships and his prophetic critique of marriage scandalised the late Victorian establishment and marked the end of his career as a novelist. Part of a series of vintage recordings taken from the Penguin Archives. Affordable, collectable, quality productions - perfect for on-the-go listening. Language: English. Narrator: Samuel West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/000340/bk_pauk_000340_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Salty Rogue: Divide and Conquer: The Heart of the Sea, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 182min, (USK 18)
The Heart of the Sea - Volume 2Life in a brigand’s ship on the high seas is never dull, but Amsten Hardy’s restless heart grows more and more impatient with each passing day. With misunderstandings and a quest for power as well as leverage in play, what will become of the delicate balance that exists aboard the Salty Rogue when he begins to play in earnest? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Taylor Wheeler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/203941/bk_acx0_203941_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Jude the Obscure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 876min
His last and most controversial novel, Jude the Obscure provoked such widespread and bitter attacks that Hardy claimed it caused him to stop writing novels. The primary causes of the uproar involved Hardy’s frank treatment of sexual themes and his unconventional portrayal of the pillars of Victorian society: the British university system, marriage, and religion. Today, many consider this to be Hardy’s finest work. The story involves the tragic relationship between Jude Fawley, a village stonemason who is thwarted in his aspirations to the ministry, and Sue Bridehead, a freethinking cousin who is shunned by society for her social and sexual rebellion. Concerned with the annihilation of innocence, Jude the Obscure is powerful in its portrayal of suffering, rich in its evocation of nature, and tragic in its vision of life. Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English poet and novelist, was born on the Egdon Heath in Dorset. He studied in Dorchester and apprenticed to an architect before leaving for London, where he began to write. Unable to find a public for his poetry, which idealized the rural life, he turned to the novel and met with success as well as controversy. The strong public reaction against some of his darker themes turned Hardy back to writing verse. Today, several of his novels are considered tragic masterpieces. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frederick Davidson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004335/bk_blak_004335_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Winter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min
A poignant imagining of Thomas Hardy’s relationship with his last muse. A celebrated author, in the winter of his life, awaits a visit from a beautiful young actress - the leading lady in a staging of his most famous tragedy. But his wife is troubled. An anxious and sickly woman, she watches the growing intimacy between her husband and the young woman, and becomes tormented by the idea that they will betray her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia Franklin, Judith Boyd, Gordon Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/001822/bk_howe_001822_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Return of the Native , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 985min
Virginia Woolf once called Thomas Hardy "the greatest tragic writer among English novelists". His atmospheric novels were often considered shocking upon their publication. In this classic, Clym Yeobright returns to Egdon Heath from Paris, intending to settle down and improve the lives of his townspeople. But the alluring and mysterious Eustacia Vye has other plans. Like so many of Hardy’s masterpieces, The Return of the Native is both a rich character study and a critical examination of Victorian society. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Tull. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/004693/bk_reco_004693_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Fiddler of the Reels , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 45min
Wat Ollamoor - if that were his real name... was a woman’s man. Occasionally, his dexterous expertise on the fiddle produced a "...moving effect upon the souls of grown-up persons, especially young women of fragile and responsive organization. Such an one was Car'line Aspent.... Though she was already engaged to be married before she met him, Car’line, of them all, was the most influenced by Mop Ollamoor’s heart-stealing melodies...." Published in 1893, The Fiddler of the Reels illustrates Thomas Hardy’s compassion and understanding of the frailities and susceptibilities of human nature. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Colley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rksw/000025/bk_rksw_000025_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Mayor of Casterbridge, Hörbuch, Digital, 143min
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. Subtitled "A Story of a Man of Character", Hardy’s powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Shaw. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/copy/000231/bk_copy_000231_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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