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Thomas Hardy
1840 - 1928
 


 






 







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C o n t e n t s:

Preface

Book One
The Three Women


1
A Face on Which Time Makes
but Little Impression

2
Humanity Appears upon the Scene,
Hand in Hand with Trouble

3
The Custom of the Country
4
The Halt on the Turnpike Road
5
Perplexity among Honest People
6
The Figure against the Sky
7
Queen of Night
8
Those Who Are Found Where
There Is Said to Be Nobody

9
Love Leads a Shrewd Man
into Strategy

10
A Desperate Attempt
at Persuasion

11
The Dishonesty of
an Honest Woman



Book Two
The Arrival


1
Tidings of the Comer
2
The People at Blooms-End
Make Ready

3
How a Little Sound
Produced a Great Dream

4
Eustacia Is Led on
to an Adventure

5
Through the Moonlight
6
The Two Stand Face to Face
7
A Coalition between
Beauty and Oddness

8
Firmness Is Discovered
in a Gentle Heart



Book Three
The Fascination


1
"My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
2
The New Course Causes
Disappointment

3
The First Act in a
Timeworn Drama

4
An Hour of Bliss and
Many Hours of Sadness

5
Sharp Words Are Spoken,
and a Crisis Ensues

6
Yeobright Goes, and the
Breach Is Complete

7
The Morning and the Evening of a Day
8
A New Force Disturbs the Current


Book Four
The Closed Door


1
The Rencounter by the Pool
2
He Is Set upon by Adversities
but He Sings a Song

3
She Goes Out to Battle
against Depression

4
Rough Coercion Is Employed
5
The Journey across the Heath
6
A Conjuncture, and Its Result
upon the Pedestrian

7
The Tragic Meeting of
Two Old Friends

8
Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune,
and Beholds Evil



Book Five
The Discovery


1
"Wherefore Is Light Given
to Him That Is in Misery"

2
A Lurid Light Breaks in
upon a Darkened Understanding

3
Eustacia Dresses Herself
on a Black Morning

4
The Ministrations
of a Half-forgotten One

5
An Old Move
Inadvertently Repeated

6
Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin,
and He Writes a Letter

7
The Night of the
Sixth of November

8
Rain, Darkness, and
Anxious Wanderers

9
Sights and Sounds Draw
the Wanderers Together



Book Six
Aftercourses


1
The Inevitable Movement Onward
2
Thomasin Walks in a Green Place
by the Roman Road

3
The Serious Discourse of Clym
with His Cousin

4
Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End,
and Clym Finds His Vocation

 
 
 
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