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Omnibus Omnibus Thomas Hardy xii, 1116 [i.e. 1124] p. : 24 cm OL14875004W
The Wordsworth Collection of Classic Romances The Wordsworth Collection of Classic Romances Charlotte Brontë,Thomas Hardy,Jane Austen,Emily Brontë [Pride & Prejudice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8193418W) Jane Austen constructed Pride & Prejudice, with wit, social precision and an irresistible heroine. Beginning with one of the most famous … OL15062282W
The Well Beloved The Well Beloved Thomas Hardy From the book:The peninsula carved by Time out of a single stone, whereon most of the following scenes are laid, has been for centuries immemorial the home of a curious and well-nigh distinct people,… OL15170335W
Unexpected elegies Unexpected elegies Thomas Hardy xx, 65 p., [10] p. of plates : 19 cm OL15507844W
The woodlanders The woodlanders Thomas Hardy Love, & the erratic heart, are at the centre of Hardy's 'woodland story'. The romantic entanglements of Giles Winterborne, Grace Melbury, the dissolute Edred Fitzpiers & the wealthy Felice Charmond a… OL16933677W
Short Stories, Please! Short Stories, Please! H. G. Wells,Dylan Thomas,Arthur Conan Doyle,Thomas Hardy,Антон Павлович Чехов,Oscar Wilde,Rudyard Kipling,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,Montague Rhodes James,Saki,Katherine Mansfield,Hilary Laurie [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- Boule de suif / Guy de Maupassant -- Baa baa, black sheep / Rudyard Kipling -- On the western circuit / Thomas … OL17577122W
The return of the native The return of the native Thomas Hardy Diamond merchant Clym Yeobright, tired of life in Paris, returns to quiet Egdon Heath to become a schoolmaster, and attracts the attention of the free-spirited Eustacia Vye who is very disappointed w… OL17742032W
Return of the Native Volume I Return of the Native Volume I Thomas Hardy The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one wo… OL259968W
The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 Bret Harte,John Brown,Thomas Hardy,Daniel Defoe,Mark Twain,Washington Irving,Henry James,Charles Dickens,James Hogg,Robert Louis Stevenson,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Frank R. Stockton I. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SHORT-STORY II. THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL. By Daniel Defoe (1661-1731) III. THE MYSTERIOUS BRIDE. By James Hogg (1770-1835) IV. THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER. By Washington Ir… OL264002W
The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,H. G. Wells,Arthur Conan Doyle,Thomas Hardy,Ambrose Bierce,Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Edgar Allan Poe,Amelia B. Edwards,Guy de Maupassant,Bram Stoker,Robert Etty,Montague Rhodes James The Ostler / Wilkie Collins -- The old nurse's stories / Elizabeth Gaskell -- [Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518318W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- [Pit and the… OL3085486W
The pursuit of the well-beloved ; & The well-beloved The pursuit of the well-beloved ; & The well-beloved Thomas Hardy Hardy's two versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. The central figure is a man obsessed both with the search for his ideal woman and with sculpting the perfect figure of … OL411285W
Moments of vision Moments of vision Thomas Hardy ix, 443 p. ; 23 cm OL44912W
An indiscretion in the life of an heiress An indiscretion in the life of an heiress Thomas Hardy This story is reprinted from the New quarterly review of July 1878. The editor believes that in it is incorporated in revised form a large part of The poor man and the lady, Hardy's lost novel of 186… OL44976W
Jude the Obscure Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy Hardy's last work of fiction, Jude the Obscure is also one of his most gloomily fatalistic, depicting the lives of individuals who are trapped by forces beyond their control. Jude Fawley, a poor vill… OL44986W
The Woodlanders The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been discussed between h… OL44990W
The Return of the Native The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one wo… OL44994W
Mayor of Casterbridge Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected… OL44997W
The Best Crime Stories of the 19th Century The Best Crime Stories of the 19th Century Richard Harding Davis,Israel Zangwill,Arthur Conan Doyle,Martin H. Greenberg,Thomas Hardy,Mark Twain,Melville Davisson Post,Robert Barr,Grant Allen,Wilkie Collins,William Russell,Charles G. Waugh,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Arthur Morrison,Isaac Asimov,Rodriguez Ottolengui,Harry Stillwell Edwards Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Purloined letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) / Edgar Allan Poe Terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins Murder under the microscope … OL46089W
The Best Horror Stories The Best Horror Stories Geoffrey Household,Thomas Burke,Stanley Ellin,A. E. Coppard,Arthur Conan Doyle,Robert Bloch,Thomas Hardy,Joseph Conrad,Dorothy L. Sayers,Graham Greene,William Faulkner,Cornell Woolrich,John Keir Cross,Robert Silverberg,Ray Bradbury,David Fletcher,Edgar Allan Poe,Patricia Highsmith,Honoré de Balzac,Guy de Maupassant,John Collier,Daphne du Maurier,Roald Dahl,Flannery O'Connor,Cyril M. Kornbluth,Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam,Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/wo… OL7453685W
The Evil Image The Evil Image Lord Byron,Charlotte Brontë,A. E. Coppard,John Keats,Nora Jaffe,Thomas Hardy,Daniel Defoe,Washington Irving,Henry James,William Butler Yeats,Stephen King,William Faulkner,Stephen Crane,Emily Brontë,Charles Dickens,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Robert Louis Stevenson,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Patricia L. Skarda,Edgar Allan Poe,Eudora Welty,Flannery O'Connor,Christina Georgina Rosetti,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Mary Alcock,Ann Radcliffe,Montague Rhodes James,John Aikin,John William Polidori,Anne Sexton,Sir Walter Scott xi • General Introduction (The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry) • essay by Patricia L. Skarda and Nora Crow Jaffe xxv • Critical Studies of the Gothic • essay by uncredi… OL8200891W
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