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A Quote by Thomas Hardy
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'urbervilles
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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Hardy's first major literary success, here brought to life by narrator Nathaniel Parker, is the story of the independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene....
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Does Thomas Hardy justice
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-19-09
- Language: English
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The British Classics Collection - Volume One: 20+ Stories from Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Mary Shelly, & More
- Great Expectations, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, To the Lighthouse, Wuthering Heights, & More
- By: Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and others
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Joanne Froggatt, and others
- Length: 204 hrs and 10 mins
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The British Classics Collection: Volume One is a century-spanning collection of 24 classic works of fiction and poetry by British authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Joanne Froggatt, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, and many more.
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The British Classics Collection - Volume One: 20+ Stories from Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Mary Shelly, & More
- Great Expectations, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, To the Lighthouse, Wuthering Heights, & More
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Joanne Froggatt, Jonathan Keeble, Adjoa Andoh, Emma Gregory, Rachel Atkins, Lucy Scott, full cast
- Length: 204 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 12-06-24
- Language: English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
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This audiobook is about the rise and fall of Michael Henchard. While out-of-work he gets drunk at a fair and impulsively sells his wife and baby for five guineas to a sailor....
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Tangled Webs
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-05-09
- Language: English
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
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Tess Durbeyfield, a peasant girl and cast-off descendant of English aristocracy, has become one of the most famous female protagonists in 19th-century British literature....
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Davina Porter Does It Again!
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-08-11
- Language: English
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The Return of the Native
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Alan Rickman
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
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Set on Egdon Heath, a fictional barren moor in Wessex, Eustacia Vye longs for the excitement of city life but is cut off from the world in her grandfather's lonely cottage....
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A Perfect Pairing
- By Mel on 11-04-12
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The Return of the Native
- Narrated by: Alan Rickman
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-27-09
- Language: English
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The Woodlanders
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
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The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-do-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of a dashing and dissolute doctor....
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Thomas Hardy lesser known work
- By Molly Aultz on 06-12-08
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The Woodlanders
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-14-07
- Language: English
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The Thomas Hardy Collection: Six Novels
- Far From the Madding Crowd; Tess of the D'Urbevilles; The Return of the Native; Jude the Obscure; The Woodlanders; The Mayor of Casterbridge
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Matt Bates, Dawn Murphy
- Length: 90 hrs and 29 mins
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The Thomas Hardy Collection: Six Novels is a collection of Thomas Hardy most well-renowned works, read by an esteemed cast of narrators.
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The Thomas Hardy Collection: Six Novels
- Far From the Madding Crowd; Tess of the D'Urbevilles; The Return of the Native; Jude the Obscure; The Woodlanders; The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Matt Bates, Dawn Murphy
- Length: 90 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 09-05-24
- Language: English
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Far from the Madding Crowd (AmazonClassics Edition)
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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....
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Thomas Hardy’s best!
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Far from the Madding Crowd (AmazonClassics Edition)
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- Release date: 04-23-18
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The Return of the Native
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In the remote wildness of Egdon Heath, the crossed love affairs and marriages of a small group of people are played out against the background of nature’s beauty and indifference to mankind....
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Thomas Hardy
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The Return of the Native
- Narrated by: Nicholas Rowe
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 02-01-14
- Language: English
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles (AmazonClassics Edition)
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When peddler John Durbeyfield learns that he may be a descendant of a noble family, he sends his oldest child, Tess, to “claim kin.” Blindly ushered into harm’s way, the strong-willed yet untinctured peasant girl is not prepared for the blighted course her life will take....
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Fantastic narration, compassion inducing tale
- By Susan G. on 09-27-20
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-11-19
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Jude the Obscure
- By: Thomas Hardy
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When the great Thomas Hardy published this heart-wrenching novel, he had no idea it would be his last....
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A sad and world-changing book
- By D. Byrd on 10-17-15
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Jude the Obscure
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-22-11
- Language: English
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Under the Greenwood Tree
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The story delicately balances the concerns of the Mellstock parish choir with a romance between Dick Dewy, a member of the choir, and Fancy Day, the village schoolmistress....
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A Lighter Hardy
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Under the Greenwood Tree
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-11-07
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Poetry Collection
- Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
- By: Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and others
- Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Gwen Watford, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors....
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wonderful but - no titles
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The Ultimate Poetry Collection
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- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 11-12-20
- Language: English
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Jude The Obscure
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- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
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This is the story of a young country workman obsessed by his ambition to become an Oxford student, interwoven with his fraught relationships with two women....
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Staggering
- By Tad Davis on 02-16-10
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Jude The Obscure
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-19-09
- Language: English
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The Hand of Ethelberta
- By: Thomas Hardy
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Opportunistic, shrewd and beautiful, Ethelberta resolves to disguise her humble beginnings and elevate her position in society. Crafting her career as a society poet and staging her family as her servants, she proves admirably adept at sustaining her own web of deceit....
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Good Read
- By D Martin on 09-18-24
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The Hand of Ethelberta
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 16 hrs
- Release date: 02-14-23
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Desperate Remedies
- By: Thomas Hardy
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Desperate Remedies contains sensational ingredients of blackmail, murder, and romance, but with its insight into psychology and sexuality it bears the unmistakable imprint of Hardy....
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Real Hardy, not his best but very good.
- By F Shaw on 03-21-23
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Desperate Remedies
- Narrated by: Melody Grove
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-20-13
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Peter Firth
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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When John Durbeyfield discovers a family connection to the ancient Norman family, the D'Urbervilles, the fate of daughter Tess is transformed....
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Peter Firth gets this book
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Narrated by: Peter Firth
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-09-08
- Language: English
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Wessex Tales
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories, deals with a number of timeless themes seen so often in Hardy’s work: marriage, class, revenge, and disappointed love....
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A Sampler
- By Tad Davis on 06-08-14
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Wessex Tales
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-06-12
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The Return of the Native
- By: Thomas Hardy
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One of Thomas Hardy's classic statements about modern love, courtship, and marriage, The Return of the Native is set in the pastoral village of Egdon Heath....
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How Sweet the Sound
- By KP on 04-10-13
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The Return of the Native
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-25-10
- Language: English
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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When confronted with three suitors, among them the dashing Sergeant Troy, Bathsheba Everdene shows a reckless capriciousness that threatens the stability of the whole community....
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A Masterpiece of Culture and Eloquence
- By Andrew on 07-07-14
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Far From the Madding Crowd
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-27-14
- Language: English
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