Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardys 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...

A young man from a poor, working-class background, passionate about education, who aspires to become a professor. His teacher, a respected role model who turns out to have feet of...

The Well-Beloved tells the story of Jocelyn Pierston and his love for three generations of women - the grandmother, her daughter and grand-daughter over a period of forty years....

Ambrose Bierce (1842 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments...

A”arte” de cultuar um automóvel antigo está tomando grandes proporções. Mais e mais pessoas estão descobrindo o prazer de ter – e usar – um clássico. Seja qual for,...

Nas obras de Thomas Hobbes existe sempre um entrecruzamento entre os conceitos pactos, palavras e ações. Tais conceitos são determinantes para traçar um percurso que demonstre...

Her father compels her to visit the biggest mansion in the village to claim kin with the aristocratic d'Urberville family. She falls prey to the debauched son of the house and...

The Woodlanders is one of Hardys later novels, although he originally intended it as a successor to Far From The Madding Crowd. It concerns the life and loves of Giles...

Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband died two weeks after the wedding. Her...

The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen Smith is a socially inferior but...