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The first complete scholarly edition of Hardy's novel, with authoritative text, full apparatus, and rich explanatory materials.

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London 1814: Der Einzelgänger James Keziah Delaney kehrt in seine Heimat London zurück. Nach zehn Jahren in Afrika wurde er sogar für tot erklärt. Nun plant er, endlich das Erbe seines Vaters - ein Schifffahrtsunternehmen - anzutreten und sich so eine neue Existenz aufzubauen. Dieses Erbe erweist sich aber als höchst schwierig - es lauern Feinde mit tödlicher Agenda an jeder Ecke. James muss sich seinen Weg durch die ihm feindlich gesinnte Lon...

A practical guide to cutting-edge techniques for flow measurement and control Unlike any other book on the subject, this volume employs practical applications to illustrate flow measurement techniques in industrial processes. Drawing on their work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, five leading researchers present applications that test the limits of commercial flow instrumentation-in harsh environments, wide rangeability, and a host of ch...

Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable.

Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of his first wife, Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends become rivals...

A heartbreaking portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness 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. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a p...

Under the Greenwood Tree interweaves the lingering courtship of Dick Dewy and sweet Fancy Day with the battle for survival of the old string choir -- the last in the county -- against the mechanical church organ of the new vicar. Set amid the farms and woodlands of Mellstock, this sunlit and good-humored pastoral romance came to epitomize for Hardy an irrecoverable English past. This new Penguin Classics edition, based on the two-volume first ...

The new graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers.