Mesternoveller i utvalg - ny, utvidet utgave. Gordon Hølmebakk har valgt ut 29 mesterverk av verdens beste novelleforfattere til denne antologien. De presenteres alle med en kort introduksjon og med en nøye utvalgt novelletekst.Novellens historie er om lag 150 år gammel, og i utvalget møter leseren et meget representativt utvalg tekster fra prosaens høyt vurderte kortform; fra de gamle mestere, som NathanielHawthorne, Gustave Flaubert og Lev Tolstoj, til nålevende store novelleforfattere som Doris Lessing, Alice Munro og Joyce Carol Oates.Dette er en litt annen utgave enn den antologien som utkom under samme tittel for noen år siden. Endringen består i at en tekst av Conrad Aiken er tatt ut, og i at de tidligere novellene av F. Scott Fitzgerald og Alice Munro er byttet ut med nye. Mest gledelig er det likevel at redaktøren har funnet plass til utsøkte noveller av sentrale forfattere som Thomas Hardy, Leonid Andrejev, James Joyce og Jean-Paul Sartre.Denne utvidete utgaven av Karavane foreligger i anledning Gordon Hølmebakks 80-årsdag i 2008, og er en hilsen til forlagsredaktøren, antologiredaktøren, essayisten og forfatteren Gordon Hølmebakk fra hans eget forlag.Et utsøkt novelleutvalg. Glimt fra 150 års novellekunst. 29 utvalgte noveller. Med en kort, innledende presentasjon av hver forfatter.

'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). Hardy's works available in Penguin Classics are A Laodicean, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Desperate Remedies, Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, Selected Poems, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales, The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories, The Hand of Ethelberta, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and The Well-beloved, The Return of the Native, The Trumpet-Major, The Withered Arm and Other Stories, The Woodlanders, Two on a Tower and Under the Greenwood Tree.

Thomas Hardy''s thrilling story of seduction, murder, cruelty and betrayal’ The Times Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a path that is beset with suffering and betrayal. When she falls in love with another man, Angel Clare, Tess sees a potential escape from her past, but only if she can tell him her shameful secret...

A tale of love, seduction and betrayal.

Tess, det eldste barnet til en drikkfeldig bonde, blir tvunget til å oppsøke den adelige familien faren har fått det for seg at de er i slekt med. Hun blir voldtatt av sønnen i huset, Alec, og drar hjem der hun føder sønnen, Sorrow, som dør etter noen få uker. Noen år senere treffer Tess den unge prestesønnen Angel, som hun gifter seg med, mot hans families vilje. Da hun forteller ham om Alec og Sorrow, forlater han henne, og igjen er Tess alene. Det er som Alecs elskerinne Angel finner henne da han angrer sin oppførsel og reiser tilbake til Tess. Desperat prøver hun å bevise for ham at hun er villig til å gjøre hva som helst for å vinne tilbake hans kjærlighet og få hans tilgivelse. Tess er en sterk og selvstendig kvinne, som på tross av at hun prøver å gjøre det som er rett, blir møtt av samfunnets dobbeltmoral og fordømmelse. Hun blir et offer for omstendigheter hun ikke har kontroll over, og konsekvensene blir fatale.

Fire mennesker bor på Egdon Heath, et lyngheiområde i Dorset. Og alle forsøker å komme seg bort derfra. Men veiene de velger å gå er tunge og vanskelige. En skildring av kjærlighet, sjalusi og enkeltindividers kamp om tilværelsen. Upper level.

Hardys mest kjente verk er en poetisk fortelling om den vakre, lidende Tess. Hennes ulykkelige skjebne er skildret med ømhet og intensitet, og de inngående beskrivelsene av Wessex-landskapet er en viktig del av boka.

Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex.Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love.It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was `...the past was yesterday; never, the day after', and lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood, whose love fills him with `...a fearful sense of exposure', when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba.The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods, contriving to make it one of the most English of great English novels.

Borgermesteren er en roman fra 1886 av den engelske forfatteren Thomas Hardy. Romanen handler om Michael Henchard, en mann som mange år tidligere har solgt sin kone på et landsbymarked i fyllerus. Michael blir en respektert borgermester i byen Chasterbridge. Plutselig kommer kona tilbake ...

Here are Thomas Hardy's famous sequence of love poems, published as a book for the first time. When Emma Hardy died in 1912, her husband, the great novelist and poet, began to write "Poems 1912-13", a series of elegies that are among the most moving in the English language. Although they had been estranged for years, after her death Hardy fell under Emma's spell again. He transformed his hopelessly revived love into poetry, pouring out his yearning and passionate attachment to a love forever lost. The accessibility, emotional power and focus on the mysterious complexities of marriage make these poems and elegies of interest to a broad public. Readers will cherish this beautifully produced, illustrated volume of poetical testaments to enduring love.

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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.

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Thomas Hardy was born in a cottage in Higher Bockhampton, near Dorchester, on 2 June 1840. He was educated locally and at sixteen was articled to a Dorchester architect, John Hicks. In 1862 he moved to London and found employment with another architect, Arthur Blomfield. He now began to write poetry and published an essay. By 1867 he had returned to Dorset to work as Hicks's assistant and began his first (unpublished) novel, The Poor Man and the Lady. On an architectural visit to St Juliot in Cornwall in 1870 he met his first wife, Emma Gifford. Before their marriage in 1874 he had published four novels and was earning his living as a writer. More novels followed and in 1878 the Hardys moved from Dorset to the London literary scene. But in 1885, after building his house at Max Gate near Dorchester, Hardy again returned to Dorset. He then produced most of his major novels: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), The Woodlanders (1887), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved (1892) and Jude the Obscure (1895). Amidst the controversy caused by Jude the Obscure, he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life. In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems and his epic drama in verse, The Dynasts.

Tess av slekten D'Urberville er en roman fra 1891 av den engelske forfatteren Thomas Hardy. Hovedpersonen Tess Durbyfield er eldst av åtte barn i en fattig familie. Den drikkfeldige faren har fått vite av landsbyprsten at han nedstammer fra den fine slekten d'Urberville.

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. Wessex Poems was Hardy's first collection of poetry, published after he had turned away from novel writing, disillusioned by the savage reception Jude the Obscure had received. Its publication marked the start of an extraordinary new phase in Hardy's writing career: for the rest of his long life, he would write only poetry. Here are sprightly Dorset ballads, verses set during the Napoleonic Wars, and personal poems reflecting on Hardy's life and loves. Composed throughout Hardy's life and animated by his affection for his beloved Wessex, their publication in 1898 heralded the arrival of a major new poetic voice.