Far From The Madding Crowd: Hardy´s works often evoke extreme reactions. His great novels are of such an exclusive class. Hardy was an acknowledget master at thoroughly involving the reader; his literary craftsmanship making the sympathetic reader as much a puppet of the novel as Hardy´s characters are puppets of an indifferent or malovelent fate...

Return Of The Native: A novel of great structural beauty and imaginative appeal, Thomas Hardy´s The Return Of The Native is essentially a tragedy that achieves a perfect balance between man and nature, the realistic and the romantic elements, and between human responsibility and the vagaries of fate. Simplicity and clarity are its hallmarks...