Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 1892
Category : English fiction
ISBN :
Is Shame Necessary?
Author : Jennifer Jacquet
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307950131
Book Description
An urgent, illuminating exploration of the social nature of shame and of how it might be used to promote large-scale political change and social reform. “[Jacquet] exposes the ways shame plays into collective ideas of punishment and reward, and the social mechanisms that dictate the ways we dictate our behavior.” —The Boston Globe Examining how we can retrofit the art of shaming for the age of social media, Jennifer Jacquet shows that we can challenge corporations and even governments to change policies and behaviors that are detrimental to the environment. Urgent and illuminating, Is Shame Necessary? offers an entirely new understanding of how shame, when applied in the right way and at the right time, has the capacity to keep us from failing our planet and, ultimately, from failing ourselves.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2007-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1460401832
Book Description
This classic novel tells the story of how the poor rural couple John and Joan Durbeyfield become convinced that they are descended from the ancient family of d'Urbervilles. They encourage their innocent daughter Tess to cement a connection with the d'Urberville family, including their unprincipled son Alec, with tragic consequences. "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented," as Hardy subtitled the novel, represented a direct challenge to conventional Victorian notions of sexuality and femininity. This is a revised, updated, and expanded Broadview edition that highlights a feminist interpretation of the novel in an extensive introduction. The range of historical appendices (including contemporary articles, letters, maps, news stories, and reviews) will greatly enhance a reader's understanding of the text.
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Author : Scott McEathron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317797175
Book Description
This sourcebook offers an introduction to Thomas Hardy's crucial novel, offering: a contextual overview, a chronology and reprinted contemporary documents, including a selection of Hardy's poems an overview of the book's early reception and recent critical fortunes, as well as a wide range of reprinted extracts from critical works key passages from the novel, reprinted with editorial comment and cross-referenced within the volume to contextual and critical documents suggestions for further reading and a list of relevant web resources. For students on a wide range of courses, this sourcebook offers the essential stepping-stone from a basic reading knowledge to an advanced understanding of Hardy's best-known novel.
The Hand of Ethelberta
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2006-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141922036
Book Description
Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London with her family acting incognito as her servants. Turning the male-dominated literary world to her advantage, she happily exploits the attentions of four very different suitors. Will she bestow her hand upon the richest of them, or on the man she loves? Ethelberta Petherwin, alias Berta Chickerel, moves with easy grace between her multiple identities, cleverly managing a tissue of lies to aid her meteoric rise. In The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), Hardy drew on conventions of popular romances, illustrated weeklies, plays, fashion plates and even his wife's diary in this comic story of a woman in control of her destiny.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Study Guide)
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2020-01-25
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
The novel is set in impoverished rural England, Thomas Hardy's fictional Wessex, during the Long Depression of the 1870s. Tess is the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield, uneducated peasants. ... He notices Tess too late to dance with her, as he is already late for his promised return to his brothers.
On the Western Circuit
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
On the Western Circuit is a novella by Thomas Hardy. Edith is a rural girl who falls in love with an older man, in this romance where the mistakes of love life are tragically explored and bared naked.
Tess of the d'Ubervilles
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681959658
Book Description
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?” ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a heartbreaking tale of a woman going to every length to try and do what is right, only to have fate tease her at each turn.
The Ballad of Laurel Springs
Author : Janet Beard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982151579
Book Description
"A provocative new novel by the nationally bestelling author of THE ATOMIC CITY GIRLS, about nine generations of one family in Eastern Tennessee whose women, in eerie echoes of the notorious Appalachian murder ballads made famous by singers, over more than a century, have been traumatized by acts of violence"--
Lucky Bunny
Author : Jill Dawson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062202510
Book Description
"Pacy and atmospheric…wickedly good." —Marie Claire (UK) "Dawson's heroine is so fresh and spirited that she carries the day." —Sunday Times (London) Having already made waves in the United Kingdom, Lucky Bunny has come to America. Acclaimed poet and author Jill Dawson, whose previous novels have been shortlisted for England's Whitbread Award and Orange Prize, now gives us the story of vivacious and endearing thief Queenie Dove, a Moll Flanders for World War II Britain. Brilliantly recreating mid-twentieth century London, from the bustling streets to the seamy underworld, from the Depression Era through the Blitz and into the 1950s, Lucky Bunny entangles readers in the adventurous life of a truly captivating anti-heroine, a self-proclaimed genius in the art of survival. Before the Krays, there was Queenie Dove… and readers will never forget her.
