Thomas Hardy Audio

Christmas brings out the best and the worst in us, as can been seen in this evocative anthology. Among what Thomas Love Peacock calls the "many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas,"...

In a remote corner of early Victorian England, where traditional practices remain untouched by time, Bathsheba Everdene stands out as a beacon of feminine independence...

In one of his lighter dramas, Bathsheba, a beautiful, self-absorbed woman, lets two men court her to the point of destroying their lives as they fall victim to her amorous caprices.

Though tragic, this novel is laced with fine comic observation, and presents a rich portrait of rustic, 19th-century British life.

Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name Wessex to the landscape of southwest England and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. Set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year, the story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility.

Thomas Hardy's novel about a British farm girl and her effect on the men who fall in love with her is read by Julie Christie.

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished.

Jude the Obscure provoked such widespread anger that Hardy claimed it caused him to stop writing novels.

Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar.

From its spectacular opening, the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a country fair...