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WESSEX NOVELS (SIX VOLUMES)

by Thomas Hardy

Illustrated by Peter Reddick

Published by Folio Society. 1996

Slightly better than very good condition. Contains: The Woodlanders; The Return of the Native; Far From The Madding Crowd; Jude the Obscure; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Tess of the d'Urbervilles. All different colour cloths, with corn dolly motif to front covers. B/w illustrations.

Some title blocks to spines slightly scuffed, small mark to base of spine of Tess, else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase with some scuffing, especially to the base.

Stock no. 1208982

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Contents

  • FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
  • Introduction
  • Author's Preface
  • Description of Farmer Oak - An Incident
  • Night - the Flock - An Interior - Another Interior
  • A Girl on Horseback - Conversation
  • Gabriel's Resolve - The Visit - the Mistake
  • Departure of Bathsheba - A Pastoral Tragedy
  • The Fair - The Journey - The Fire
  • Recognition - a Timid Girl
  • The Malthouse - The Chat - News
  • The Homestead - A Visitor - Half-Confidences
  • Mistress and Men
  • Outside the Barracks - Snow - A Meeting
  • Farmers - a Rule - An Exception
  • Sortes Sanctorum - The Valentine
  • Effect of the Letter - Sunrise
  • A Morning Meeting - The Letter Again
  • All Saints' and All Souls'
  • In the Market-Place
  • Boldwood in Meditation - Regret
  • The Sheep-Washing - The Offer
  • Perplexity - Grinding the Shears - a Quarrel
  • Troubles in the Fold - a Message
  • The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers
  • Eventide - A Second Declaration
  • The same Night - The Fir Plantation
  • The New Acquaintance described
  • Scene on the Berge of the Hay-Mead
  • Hiving the Bees
  • the Hollow amid the Ferns
  • Particulars of a Twilight Walk
  • Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes
  • Blame - Fury
  • Night - Horses Tramping
  • In the Sun - A Harbinger
  • Home again - a Trickster
  • At an Upper Window
  • Wealth in Jeopardy - the Revel
  • The Storm - The Two together
  • Rain - One Solitary meets another
  • Coming Home - a Cry
  • On Casterbridge Highway
  • Suspicion - Fanny is sent for
  • Joseph and his Burden - Buck's Head
  • Fanny's Revenge
  • Under a Tree - Reaction
  • Troy's Romanticism
  • The Gurgoyle: its Doings
  • Adventures by the Shore
  • Doubts Arisie - Doubts Linger
  • Oak's Advancement - a Great Hope
  • The Sheep Fair - Troy touches his Wife's hand
  • Bathsheba talks with her Outrider
  • Converging Courses
  • Concurritur - Horae Momento
  • After the Shock
  • The March Following - 'Bathsheba Boldwood'
  • Beauty in Loneliness - After All
  • A Foggy Night and Morning - Conclusion
  • TESS OF THE D'UBERVILLES
  • Introduction
  • Explanatory Note to the First Edition - TH
  • Preface to the Fifth and Later Edition - TH
  • Phase the First: The Maiden, I-XI
  • Phase the Second: Maiden No More, XII-XV
  • Phase the Third: The Rally, XVI-XXIV
  • Phase the Fourth: The Consequence, XXV-XXXIV
  • Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays, XXV-XLIV
  • Phase the Sixth: The Convert, XLV-LII
  • Phase the Seventh: Fulfilment, LIII-LIX
  • THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE
  • Introduction
  • Author's Preface
  • BOOK FIRST: THE THREE WOMEN
  • 1. A Face on which Time makes but Little Impression
  • 2. Humanity appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
  • 3. The Custom of the Country
  • 4. The Halt on the Turnpike Road
  • 5. Perplexity among Honest People
  • 6. The Figure against the Sky
  • 7. Queen of the Night
  • 8. Those who are Found where there is said to be a Nobody
  • 9. Love leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
  • 10. A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
  • 11. The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
  • BOOK SECOND: THE ARRIVAL
  • 1. Tidings of the Corner
  • 2. The People at Blooms-End make Ready
  • 3. How a Little Sound produced a Great Dream
  • 4. Eustacia is led on to an Adventure
  • 5. Through the Moonlight
  • 6. The Two stand face to face
  • 7. A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
  • 8. Firmness is discovered in a Gentle Heart
  • BOOK THIRD: THE FASCINATION
  • 1. 'My Mind to me a Kingdom is'
  • 2. The New Course causes Disappointment
  • 3. The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
  • 4. An Hour of Bliss and many Hours of Sadness
  • 5. Sharp Words are spoken, and a Crisis ensues
  • 6. Yeobright goes, and the Breach is Complete
  • 7. The Morning and the Evening of a Day
  • 8. A New Force disturbs the Current
  • BOOK FOURTH: THE CLOSED DOOR
  • 1. The Rencounter by the Pool
  • 2. He is set upon by Adversities; but he sings a Song
  • 3. She goes out to Battle against Depression
  • 4. Rough Coercion is Employed
  • 5. The Journey across the Heath
  • 6. A Conjuncture, the its Result upon the Pedestrian
  • 7. The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
  • 8. Eustacia hears of Good Fortune, and beholds Evil
  • BOOK FIFTH: THE DISCOVERY
  • 1. 'Wherefore is Light given to him that is in Misery?'
  • 2. A Lurid Light breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
  • 3. Eustacia dresses herself on a Black Monday
  • 4. The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
  • 5. An Old Move inadvertently repeated
  • 6. Thomasin argues with her Cousin and he writes a letter
  • 7. The Night of the Sixth of November
  • 8. Rain, Darkness and Anxious Wanderers
  • 9. Sights and Sounds draw the Wanderers together
  • BOOK SIXTH: AFTERCOURSES
  • 1. The Inevitable Movement Onward
  • 2. Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
  • 3. The Serious Discourse of Clym with his Cousin
  • 4. Cheerfulness again asserts itself at Blooms-End and Clym finds his Vocation
  • JUDE THE OBSCURE
  • Introduction
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Postscript
  • Part First: At Marygreen
  • Part Second: At Christminster
  • Part Third: At Melchester
  • Part Fourth: At Shaston
  • Part Fifth: At Aldbridkham and Elsewhere
  • Part Sixth: At Christminster Again

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