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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'urbervilles
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The Return of the Native
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Alan Rickman
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
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Set on Egdon Heath, a fictional barren moor in Wessex, Eustacia Vye longs for the excitement of city life but is cut off from the world in her grandfather's lonely cottage....
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A Perfect Pairing
- By Mel on 11-04-12
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The Return of the Native
- Narrated by: Alan Rickman
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-27-09
- Language: English
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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Hardy's first major literary success, here brought to life by narrator Nathaniel Parker, is the story of the independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene....
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Does Thomas Hardy justice
- By vhuggins on 06-11-13
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-19-09
- Language: English
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Peter Firth
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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When John Durbeyfield discovers a family connection to the ancient Norman family, the D'Urbervilles, the fate of daughter Tess is transformed....
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Peter Firth gets this book
- By Claire on 04-11-10
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Narrated by: Peter Firth
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-09-08
- Language: English
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The Woodlanders
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
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The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-do-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of a dashing and dissolute doctor....
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Thomas Hardy lesser known work
- By Molly Aultz on 06-12-08
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The Woodlanders
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-14-07
- Language: English
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Jude The Obscure
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
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This is the story of a young country workman obsessed by his ambition to become an Oxford student, interwoven with his fraught relationships with two women....
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Staggering
- By Tad Davis on 02-16-10
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Jude The Obscure
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-19-09
- Language: English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
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This audiobook is about the rise and fall of Michael Henchard. While out-of-work he gets drunk at a fair and impulsively sells his wife and baby for five guineas to a sailor....
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Tangled Webs
- By Joseph R on 12-22-09
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-05-09
- Language: English
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The Return of the Native
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Nicholas Rowe
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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In the remote wildness of Egdon Heath, the crossed love affairs and marriages of a small group of people are played out against the background of nature’s beauty and indifference to mankind....
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Thomas Hardy
- By Jeff Lacy on 05-06-17
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The Return of the Native
- Narrated by: Nicholas Rowe
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 02-01-14
- Language: English
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Jude the Obscure
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
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When the great Thomas Hardy published this heart-wrenching novel, he had no idea it would be his last....
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A sad and world-changing book
- By D. Byrd on 10-17-15
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Jude the Obscure
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-22-11
- Language: English
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Favorite Poems for Children
- By: Lewis Carroll, James Reeves, Oliver Herford, and others
- Narrated by: Katinka Wolf
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Dance with a lobster, telephone an elephant or knock on a moonlit door....
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A treasure in poetry
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Favorite Poems for Children
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- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release date: 10-28-10
- Language: English
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Desperate Remedies
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Melody Grove
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Desperate Remedies contains sensational ingredients of blackmail, murder, and romance, but with its insight into psychology and sexuality it bears the unmistakable imprint of Hardy....
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Absorbing early Hardy
- By P. D. on 04-22-19
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Desperate Remedies
- Narrated by: Melody Grove
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-20-13
- Language: English
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
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When confronted with three suitors, among them the dashing Sergeant Troy, Bathsheba Everdene shows a reckless capriciousness that threatens the stability of the whole community....
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A Masterpiece of Culture and Eloquence
- By Andrew on 07-07-14
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Far From the Madding Crowd
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-27-14
- Language: English
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
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Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene....
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Another Classic!
- By 🌸DARA on 06-07-13
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 07-29-08
- Language: English
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Short Stories: The Vintage Collection
- By: Saki, Thomas Hardy, Kate Chopin, and others
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Martin Jarvis, Hugh Laurie, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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The fifth volume in CSA Word's massively popular complete and unabridged ‘Short Stories’ collection is bound to please....
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Superb Collection and Production
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Short Stories: The Vintage Collection
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Martin Jarvis, Hugh Laurie, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Rupert Degas
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-02-10
- Language: English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author's unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives....
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A Masterpiece
- By Anonymous User on 03-03-22
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 03-19-10
- Language: English
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
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Tess Durbeyfield, a peasant girl and cast-off descendant of English aristocracy, has become one of the most famous female protagonists in 19th-century British literature....
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Davina Porter Does It Again!
- By misaki on 06-15-15
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-08-11
- Language: English
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Under the Greenwood Tree
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
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The story delicately balances the concerns of the Mellstock parish choir with a romance between Dick Dewy, a member of the choir, and Fancy Day, the village schoolmistress....
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A Lighter Hardy
- By Cariola on 01-02-12
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Under the Greenwood Tree
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-11-07
- Language: English
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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Gabriel Oak is a young shepherd. With the savings of a frugal life and a loan, he has leased and stocked a sheep farm. He falls in love with a newcomer eight years his junior, Bathsheba Everdene....
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Great Love Story
- By Diane L Rouse on 05-21-19
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-19-16
- Language: English
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Penguin Classics
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Sian Clifford
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall....
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Sian Clifford
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 09-26-19
- Language: English
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Anne-Marie Duff
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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Thomas Hardy’s timeless masterpiece is brought to life in this new recording by Anne-Marie Duff....
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Don’t read this
- By Amazon Customer on 02-25-22
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Narrated by: Anne-Marie Duff
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-09-20
- Language: English
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles....
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Wonderful narrator, disappointing novel
- By Erez on 10-14-08
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 07-28-08
- Language: English
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