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The second of 'The Wessex Chronicles'. The novel explores the multi-faceted, complex relationships that can exist between different generations of the sexes.
Sarah Mason lives in a typical Victorian industrial town. Happy to be starting her Easter holiday from school, her joy is short lived for, a year after her step-father disappeared without trace, her mother is tragically killed in a road accident, leaving Sarah and her twin brothers without any means of support. Stoically she decides her only course of action is to go in search of her real father and with some reluctance places the boys in the local orphanage.
Her search begins in a small Wessex village where sadly Sarah becomes caught up in the very lifestyle she has been so desper | |  | | The d'Urberville Inheritance
The sequel to ‘Tess’- a marriage flawed from the start, a series of mishaps, a difference in class, leading to tragedy and heartache.
When Tess makes a last appeal that Angel should marry her sister Liza-Lu, she could not have realized what an improvident request she was making. Although she had their best interests at heart, for she loved them both dearly, could it in all honesty be called a lucid, reasonable request? How could the soon to be widowed husband refuse the woman he loved her last wish? But, in spite of the illegality of the union and a protestation based on those grounds, he finally agreed.
After a decent period of mourning, the young and naive Liza-Lu becomes Mrs. Eliza Louisa Clare. The marriage be | |  | | Weatherbury Farm
At the end of Far From the Madding Crowd, which is perhaps Thomas Hardy’s most popular novel, Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Everdene are newly-married.
Now, at Weatherbury Farm, time has moved on and with three grown up children, the Oak family find Wessex life is slowly changing. Is this change for the better?
In Far From the Madding Crowd, which is perhaps Thomas Hardy’s most popular novel, we leave Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Everdene newly-married. Now, many years on, Bathsheba’s husband and three almost grown-up children have superseded the three diverse suitors of her youth. Bathsheba’s caprice and wilfulness has been replaced with the trials and tribulations of family life. All three children reject the careers chosen for them by their parents to become evermore cosmopolitan in their lives and outlook. As the children mature and make fewer demands on her time, Bathsheba beco | |  | | Weatherbury Farm Sequel to Far from the Madding Crowd
A Sequel To Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd - Third edition
In Far From the Madding Crowd, which is perhaps Thomas Hardy’s most popular novel, we leave Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Everdene newly-married. Now, many years on, Bathsheba’s husband and three almost grown-up children have superseded the three diverse suitors of her youth. Bathsheba’s caprice and wilfulness has been replaced with the trials and tribulations of family life.
All three children reject the careers chosen for them by their parents to become evermore cosmopolitan in their lives and outlook. As the children mature and make fewer demands on her time, Bathsh |
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The House of Green Waters
by Edward Patterson
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 Fourth Book in the Southern Swallow Series finds the Academician Li K'ai-men in exile on Hai-nan Island. China has a new invasion threat. A showdown between ingenuity and technology explodes as the Sung Dynasty tries to preserve itself. |
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