THOMAS HARDY Ultimate Collection: 15 Novels, 53 Short Stories & 650+ Poems (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Victorian Wessex: Novels, Short Stories & Poems, IllustratedBy Thomas Hardy
Length279h 41m
About this audiobook
This illustrated ultimate collection gathers the full breadth of Thomas Hardy's achievement: fifteen novels, fifty-three short stories, and more than 650 poems, tracing one of Victorian and early modern literature's most distinctive imaginative worlds. From the tragic landscapes of Wessex in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure to the compressed ironies of the tales and the elegiac intensity of the poetry, Hardy's art fuses realism, fatalism, pastoral memory, and philosophical skepticism. The volume reveals his movement from nineteenth-century social fiction toward a modernist consciousness shaped by doubt, desire, and historical change. Hardy, born in rural Dorset in 1840 and trained as an architect, brought to literature an acute sense of place, structure, and social constraint. His intimate knowledge of village life, class mobility, religious decline, and the pressures placed upon women profoundly informed his fiction. After hostile reactions to his later novels, he turned chiefly to poetry, where his austere lyric voice found enduring power. This collection is ideal for readers seeking Hardy entire: novelist, storyteller, poet, moral anatomist, and chronicler of vanished rural England.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length279 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 9, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THOMAS HARDY Ultimate Collection: 15 Novels, 53 Short Stories & 650+ Poems (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
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6Novels
7Under the Greenwood Tree
8Winter
9Spring
10Summer
11Autumn
12Conclusion
13Far from the Madding Crowd (pt. 1)
14Far from the Madding Crowd (pt. 2)
15Far from the Madding Crowd (pt. 3)
16Far from the Madding Crowd (pt. 4)
17Far from the Madding Crowd (pt. 5)
18Far from the Madding Crowd (pt. 6)
19Far from the Madding Crowd (pt. 7)
20The Return of the Native
21The Three Women (pt. 1)
22The Three Women (pt. 2)
23The Arrival
24The Fascination (pt. 1)
25The Fascination (pt. 2)
26The Closed Door (pt. 1)
27The Closed Door (pt. 2)
28The Discovery (pt. 1)
29The Discovery (pt. 2)
30Aftercourses
31The Mayor of Casterbridge (pt. 1)
32The Mayor of Casterbridge (pt. 2)
33The Mayor of Casterbridge (pt. 3)
34The Mayor of Casterbridge (pt. 4)
35The Mayor of Casterbridge (pt. 5)
36The Mayor of Casterbridge (pt. 6)
37The Woodlanders (pt. 1)
38The Woodlanders (pt. 2)
39The Woodlanders (pt. 3)
40The Woodlanders (pt. 4)
41The Woodlanders (pt. 5)
42The Woodlanders (pt. 6)
43The Woodlanders (pt. 7)
44Tess of the d'Urbervilles
45The Maiden (pt. 1)
46The Maiden (pt. 2)
47Maiden No More
48The Rally
49The Consequence (pt. 1)
50The Consequence (pt. 2)
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