Esta es la historia de un doble fracaso: el de un ideal de pareja fuera del derecho de familia. Novela fuerte y dura que, pese a la densidad de su entramado conceptual, entra de lleno en el modelo de relato realista. En el momento de su publicación en 1895 fue la primera novela que expuso claramente y sin tapujos la cuestión de las relaciones sexuales como un problema filosófico y vital abierto al debate público.

This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work.

Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man's world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When she falls in love with one of them, she soon wishes she had kept her independence. She learns that love brings misery, pain, and violent passions that can destroy lives . . .

Ideal for elementary or pre-intermediate learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it.These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy's tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time.

Publicada en 1891, Tess, la de los d'Urberville retrata la vida rural del sur de Inglaterra a través de la figura de la protagonista, descendiente de una familia aristocrática empobrecida. Forzada por un aristócrata y condenada por una sociedad de moral estricta, Tess se rebela contra el destino que se le impone guiada por su innata independencia, su incapacidad de comprender el doble rasero con el que se juzga la conducta de los sexos y, sobre todo, por su invencible deseo de alcanzar la felicidad. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) fue uno de los principales escritores de la Inglaterra victoriana. Sus novelas, entre las que destacan, aparte de Tess, Jude el oscuro, Dos en una torre -ambas publicadas en Alianza Editorial- y El regreso del nativo, están llenas de fuerza y pasión, y suelen contraponer el medio rural con el urbano y fabril, y al individuo con la sociedad que lo rodea.