Wydawca: Penguin Books

Oprawa: oprawa broszurowa

Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets her heart on marrying him, believing that through him she can leave rural life and find fulfilment elsewhere. But she is to be disappointed, for ...

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Oprawa: oprawa broszurowa

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the ...

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Oprawa: oprawa broszurowa

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 and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality ...

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Oprawa: oprawa broszurowa

Jude Fawley`s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking ‘New Woman’. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious ...

Wydawca: Świat Książki

Oprawa: twarda oprawa w obwolucie

Napisana po mistrzowsku, z szerokim, epickim oddechem, historia człowieka, który nie umie zmagać się z życiem i walczyć o swoje. Juda, choć bystry, nie zostaje naukowcem, jak sobie wymarzył w dzieciństwie. Nie udaje mu się też małżeństwo, zawarte bez uczucia. Czy miłość do Sue, kobiety wykształconej, o niezależnych poglądach, da mu siłę, by stawić czoło rzeczywistości? A może nad losem ...