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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'urbervilles
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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Hardy's first major literary success, here brought to life by narrator Nathaniel Parker, is the story of the independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene....
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Does Thomas Hardy justice
- By vhuggins on 06-11-13
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-19-09
- Language: English
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Peter Firth
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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When John Durbeyfield discovers a family connection to the ancient Norman family, the D'Urbervilles, the fate of daughter Tess is transformed....
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Peter Firth gets this book
- By Claire on 04-11-10
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Narrated by: Peter Firth
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-09-08
- Language: English
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The Poetry of World War One
- By: Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy, Isaac Rosenberg, and others
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards, Lucy Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse.
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The Poetry of World War One
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards, Lucy Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-09-24
- Language: English
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The Return of the Native
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Alan Rickman
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
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Set on Egdon Heath, a fictional barren moor in Wessex, Eustacia Vye longs for the excitement of city life but is cut off from the world in her grandfather's lonely cottage....
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A Perfect Pairing
- By Mel on 11-04-12
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The Return of the Native
- Narrated by: Alan Rickman
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-27-09
- Language: English
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The Woodlanders
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
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The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-do-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of a dashing and dissolute doctor....
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Thomas Hardy lesser known work
- By Molly Aultz on 06-12-08
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The Woodlanders
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-14-07
- Language: English
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Penguin Classics
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Sian Clifford
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall....
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Sian Clifford
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 09-26-19
- Language: English
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The Hand of Ethelberta
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 16 hrs
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Opportunistic, shrewd and beautiful, Ethelberta resolves to disguise her humble beginnings and elevate her position in society. Crafting her career as a society poet and staging her family as her servants, she proves admirably adept at sustaining her own web of deceit....
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A pleasant surprise
- By Simon Brodie on 07-31-23
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The Hand of Ethelberta
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 16 hrs
- Release date: 02-14-23
- Language: English
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Tess Durbeyfield, a peasant girl and cast-off descendant of English aristocracy, has become one of the most famous female protagonists in 19th-century British literature....
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Davina Porter Does It Again!
- By misaki on 06-15-15
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-08-11
- Language: English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook is about the rise and fall of Michael Henchard. While out-of-work he gets drunk at a fair and impulsively sells his wife and baby for five guineas to a sailor....
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Tangled Webs
- By Joseph R on 12-22-09
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-05-09
- Language: English
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Far From the Madding Crowd
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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When confronted with three suitors, among them the dashing Sergeant Troy, Bathsheba Everdene shows a reckless capriciousness that threatens the stability of the whole community....
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A Masterpiece of Culture and Eloquence
- By Andrew on 07-07-14
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Far From the Madding Crowd
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-27-14
- Language: English
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Desperate Remedies
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Melody Grove
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
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Desperate Remedies contains sensational ingredients of blackmail, murder, and romance, but with its insight into psychology and sexuality it bears the unmistakable imprint of Hardy....
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Absorbing early Hardy
- By P. D. on 04-22-19
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Desperate Remedies
- Narrated by: Melody Grove
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-20-13
- Language: English
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A Laodicean
- A Story of To-day
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
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A Laodicean occupies a unique place in the Thomas Hardy canon. Departing from pre-industrial Wessex, Hardy brings his themes of social constraint, fate, chance and miscommunication to the very modern world of the 1880s - complete with falsified telegraphs and perilous train tracks....
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Uncharacteristic
- By Tad Davis on 01-31-19
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A Laodicean
- A Story of To-day
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 12-13-18
- Language: English
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 16 hrs
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The daughter of the rector of Endelstow, a sparse, sea-swept parish in Cornwall, Elfride is caught between two suitors of very different backgrounds....
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Depressing story & unbelievable central character
- By Molly R. on 08-14-17
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 16 hrs
- Release date: 12-10-15
- Language: English
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Steven Green
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
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"Far from the Madding Crowd" (1874) is the first novel set in Hardy's fictional county of Wessex in rural southwest England. It...
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Narrated by: Steven Green
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 02-28-19
- Language: English
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Under the Greenwood Tree
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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The four seasons of the Wessex year form the backdrop for the delightful romance of Dick Dewy and Fancy Day. The ups and downs of their courtship are set alongside the story of the rustics....
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A gentle look at human nature
- By Sue Gentry on 06-08-23
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Under the Greenwood Tree
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-02-08
- Language: English
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Jude The Obscure
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
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This is the story of a young country workman obsessed by his ambition to become an Oxford student, interwoven with his fraught relationships with two women....
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Staggering
- By Tad Davis on 02-16-10
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Jude The Obscure
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-19-09
- Language: English
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Jude the Obscure
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
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When the great Thomas Hardy published this heart-wrenching novel, he had no idea it would be his last....
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A sad and world-changing book
- By D. Byrd on 10-17-15
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Jude the Obscure
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-22-11
- Language: English
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The Return of the Native
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
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One of Thomas Hardy's classic statements about modern love, courtship, and marriage, The Return of the Native is set in the pastoral village of Egdon Heath....
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How Sweet the Sound
- By KP on 04-10-13
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The Return of the Native
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-25-10
- Language: English
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Harriet Seed
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles is a harsh criticism of societal conventions and the treatment of women, and remains Thomas Hardy’s most well-known and revisited works. The story is tragically timeless, and remains compelling to this day....
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Narrated by: Harriet Seed
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 09-23-21
- Language: English
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Jude the Obscure
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
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When Jude and Sue decide to lead their lives outside marriage they bring down on themselves all the force of a repressive society. This fearless and outspoken story caused a furor on its publication....
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Left reeling
- By Tad Davis on 03-03-14
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Jude the Obscure
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-07-13
- Language: English
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