Hlavní postavy tohoto příběhu - Gabriel Oak a Bathsheba Everdeneová - zdolávají přečetné spletité překážky svých souběžných cest až k dramatické katarzi, z níž jejich láska vychází zakalená zmoudřelá k šťastnému naplnění... Zobraziť viac
Román patří k nejslavnějším viktoriánským románům a na čtenářské oblibě neztratil dodnes. Ve své době vzbudil obrovský rozruch a náležitě bouřlivou odezvu, zvláště díky autorově vášnivé obžalobě puritánské viktoriánské Zobraziť viac
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic... Zobraziť viac
Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne... Zobraziť viac
Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the respectable... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
Into his story of a simple but beautiful country girl's seduction by another man which causes her husband to leave her on their wedding night and thereby precipitates a course of events that ends in murder, ... Zobraziť viac
The bold and beautiful Bathsheba Everdene has arrived at weatherbury, creating a stir in the idyllic community of the countryside... Zobraziť viac
Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world, Tess of the D'Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she attempts to escape the poverty of her background, seeking wealth by claiming connection ... Zobraziť viac
This title comes with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Bathsheba Everdene arrives in the small village of Weatherbury and captures the heart of three very different men; Gabriel Oak, a quiet shepherd, the proud, obdurate Farmer ... Zobraziť viac
Hlavní postavy tohoto příběhu - Gabriel Oak a Bathsheba Everdeneová - zdolávají přečetné spletité překážky svých souběžných cest až k dramatické katarzi, z níž jejich láska vychází zakalená zmoudřelá k šťastnému naplnění... Zobraziť viac
Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the respectable... Zobraziť viac
The bold and beautiful Bathsheba Everdene has arrived at weatherbury, creating a stir in the idyllic community of the countryside... Zobraziť viac
In rural Victorian England, the willful Bathsheba Everdene is courted by three men: her repressed neighbor, a devoted shepherd, and a thriftless soldier. They cross and clash again and again in tragedy, grief, betrayal, misguided affections, and the... Zobraziť viac
'As you got older, ... you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and scorched it. Zobraziť viac
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. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems ... Zobraziť viac
