Author of Audiobooks - Thomas Hardy
In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations - Thomas Hardy
In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of "In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations" by Thomas Hardy. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 30, 2013. Written during the First World War, this is a poem about love, war and their timelessness by...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Literary Fiction
One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by conventional morality and its antithesis. Born near Dorchester, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) set most of his stories in...
Song of the Soldiers' Wives - Thomas Hardy
Song of the Soldiers' Wives - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Thomas Hardy is regarded as one of the best English novelists. His novels are heartbreaking, unconventional, sad and lyrical. He also wrote many poems. This is one of the best. This is the weekly poem for the week starting at 5 August 2012. (Summary...
The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Romance
The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. Although they have been informally betrothed for some time,...
The Ruined Maid - Thomas Hardy
The Ruined Maid - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The...
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 3) - Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 3) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In a fit of drunkenness, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter to the highest bidder at a country fair. He lives with regret and swears off drink, until his wife and daughter return eighteen years later, when he is now well-off and the...
The Well-Beloved - Thomas Hardy
The Well-Beloved - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
'The Well-Beloved' tells the story of Jocelyn Pierston and his love for three generations of women - the grandmother, her daughter and grand-daughter over a period of forty years. Pierston is seeking for perfection in his choice of lover and in...
Two On A Tower - Thomas Hardy
Two On A Tower - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The plot concerns two – literally starcrossed – lovers: Swithin St. Cleeve, a very young amateur astronomer, and Viviette Constantine, an unhappily married and abandoned woman 8 or 9 years his senior. Each night Swithin climbs the old tower of the...
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The two other main characters are his...
The Trumpet Major - Thomas Hardy
The Trumpet Major - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments preparing for an expected invasion brings colour and chaos to the county. A graceful and charming young woman,...
The Return of the Native (version 2 dramatic reading) - Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native (version 2 dramatic reading) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
Clym Yeobright returns home to Egdon Heath, a scattered collection of houses on the isolated Wessex moors, and is caught up in a "love pentagon" which includes: his cousin, Thomasin Yeobright; the shadowy inn-keeper, Damon Wildeve; the controversial...
Desperate Remedies - Thomas Hardy
Desperate Remedies - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Cytherea Graye is poor, but accepts a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had not been able to marry. Cytherea in turn loves a young architect, Edward Springrove; but will Miss Adclyffe's...
The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband died two weeks after the wedding. Her father-in-law, Lord Petherwin, died shortly afterwards. Ethelberta (now...
Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (Selection) - Thomas Hardy
Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (Selection) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Poetry
Hardy claimed poetry as his first love, and published collections until his death in 1928. Although not as well received by his contemporaries as his novels, Hardy's poetry has been applauded considerably in recent years. Most of his poems deal with...
The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and honest novel of chance and choice, faith and infidelities, this dark...
Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy
Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
This novel is subtitled The Mellstock Quire, A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. The Quire is the group of musicians who accompany the hymns at the local church and we follow the fortunes of one member, Dick Dewy, who falls in love with the new...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Tess of the d'Urbervilles subtitled, "A Pure Woman," is the story of a young working woman named Tess Durbeyfield who is sent by her father to visit wealthy relatives. Her encounter with Alec d'Urberville changes her life forever, and brings about a...
Far From The Madding Crowd, version 2 - Thomas Hardy
Far From The Madding Crowd, version 2 - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Far From The Madding Crowd is Hardy's fourth novel. It centres on the lives of five characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Mr Boldwood, Sgt. Troy and Fanny Robin. The plot involves love, loyalty, death and betrayal and all this is delivered to...
Wessex Poems - Thomas Hardy
Wessex Poems - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn...
A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy
A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen Smith is a socially inferior but ambitious young man who adores her and with whom she shares a country...
Middle Age Enthusiasms - Thomas Hardy
Middle Age Enthusiasms - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important...
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character". It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of...
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural and small-town England in the mid-1800s. In the original subtitle, Hardy called this the story of "a man of...
The Oxen - Thomas Hardy
The Oxen - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you seven different recordings of The Oxen, by Thomas Hardy. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 17th, 2006....
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (version 3) - Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (version 3) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented" is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper, The Graphic. Though now...
Wessex Tales - Thomas Hardy
Wessex Tales - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introduction to his writing. Though not as comprehensive as his major works they do contain all the ingredients that...
A Laodicean - Thomas Hardy
A Laodicean - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction
The Laodicean (someone whose religious beliefs are “lukewarm”) of the title is Paula Power who bought the ancient castle De Stancy which she is determined to restore. Being of a modern frame of mind, she has the telegraph connected to the castle –...
Life's Little Ironies; A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters - Thomas Hardy
Life's Little Ironies; A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
Eighteen short stories by a master story teller. - Summary by david wales...
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid - Thomas Hardy
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
A milkmaid, Margery, encounters a mysterious foreigner and perhaps prevents him from committing suicide. In gratitude, the man offers her any reward she can name. She tells him she wants to go to a ball. He takes her, admittedly a bit reluctantly,...
At A Lunar Eclipse - Thomas Hardy
At A Lunar Eclipse - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of At A Lunar Eclipse by Thomas Hardy. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 27, 2019. ------ While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first...
Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces - Thomas Hardy
Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous novels as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd. Similar to his novels, the underlying...
A Changed Man And Other Tales - Thomas Hardy
A Changed Man And Other Tales - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
Eleven short stories. - Summary by david wales...
The Woodlanders (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
The Woodlanders is one of Hardy's later novels, although he originally intended it as a successor to Far From The Madding Crowd. It concerns the life and loves of Giles Winterborne, Grace Melbury, Edred Fitzpiers, Felice Charmond and Marty South....
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. It first appeared, anonymously, as...
Jude the Obscure (Version 2) - Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure (Version 2) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Eleven-year-old Jude Fawley, inspired by his teacher Mr. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree, decides to adopt the same course for himself. Raised by his great-aunt, he studies hard with the aid of some old...
A Group of Noble Dames - Thomas Hardy
A Group of Noble Dames - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Short Stories
The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue—the faintest tradition of what went on behind...
When I set out for Lyonnesse - Thomas Hardy
When I set out for Lyonnesse - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of When I set out for Lyonnesse by Thomas Hardy. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 22, 2021. ------ This Weekly poem is from the collection Satires of Circumstance by Thomas Hardy (1914)....
A Commonplace Day - Thomas Hardy
A Commonplace Day - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Commonplace Day by Thomas Hardy. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 27, 2022. ------ Thomas Hardy OM was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George...
Great Ghost Stories - Thomas Hardy
Great Ghost Stories - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Anthologies
A great collection of 12 classic stories about ghosts and the supernatural. Included are stories by Thomas Hardy, Fitz-James O'Brien, and Margaret Oliphant. Recommended for fans of classic ghost stories of yesteryear. - Summary by Phyllis Vincelli...
To Flowers From Italy In Winter - Thomas Hardy
To Flowers From Italy In Winter - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of To Flowers From Italy In Winter by Thomas Hardy. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 25, 2021. ------ This Weekly Poem features some of the Poet's thoughts on imported flowers. ( a curious...