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This was the title poem of William Morris's most renowned collection, "The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems", originally published in 1858. The Arthurian setting permi...
Republican, pagan, a sensualist alive to pleasure and to pain, Swinburne flouted the rules of Victorian decorum and morality in his life and work He created a unique means...
"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. The...
Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another.
Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Br...
Underwoods is a collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1887. It comprises two books, Book I with 38 poems in English, Book II with 16 poems in Scots. H...
Swinburne . . . was one of those not very numerous poets whom their contemporaries have treated with justice. The different attention which he received at different period...
Действие романа развертывается в 20-40-х годах XIX века, в одном из юго-западных городов Англии. Герой романа Майкл Хенчард - сельскохозяйственный рабочий, батрак, которог...
Томас Харди - английский писатель, для которого характерно определение, выражающее главное призвание литературы: изображать природную и духовную сущность человека.
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"The Woodlanders" contains some of Thomas Hardy's finest writing. Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of Little Hintock and cannot m...
"The Well-Beloved" completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the sufferi...
Thomas Hardy's exploration of his most tragic hero, Michael Henchard, is the classic tale of over-ambition. From his drunken sale of his wife and baby at a country fair, t...
One of Thomas Hard's most greatly loved and gentlest books, "Under the Greenwood Tree" is an unashamed idyll and picturesque portrait of the long-vanished pastoral society...
Bathsheba Everdene is a strong, confident woman who becomes a powerful farmer. But her emotional life descends into chaos as she becomes involved with three very different men.
Set in Hardy's Wesscx, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the ...