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[SR: 5374045], Paperback, [EAN: 9781420943412], Digireads.com, Digireads.com, Book, [PU: Digireads.com], Digireads.com, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), dreamed since his childhood of becoming a… mais…

[SR: 5374045], Paperback, [EAN: 9781420943412], Digireads.com, Digireads.com, Book, [PU: Digireads.com], Digireads.com, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), dreamed since his childhood of becoming a poet. However, he produced several popular works that cemented his reputation as a great novelist of the Victorian period, and earned him the admiration of later writers like D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Hardy's stories are noted for their nuances of Romantic and Enlightenment thinking, particularly elements of the supernatural. One of what Hardy called his Novels of Ingenuity, "The Hand of Ethelberta" explores the class distinctions of Victorian England through the trials of Ethelberta Petherwin. By the age of 18, the humble governess and daughter of a butler marries well, only to become a widow two weeks later. In order to support her mother and ten siblings, clever Ethelberta quickly learns to navigate the complex social world as a poetess and storyteller, attracting four persistent suitors along the way. She must decide which man to bestow her hand upon while never revealing her humble origins., 10399, Classics, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 9781420943412

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), dreamed since his childhood of becoming a poet. However, he produced several popular works that cemented his reputation as a great novelist of the Victorian peri… mais…

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), dreamed since his childhood of becoming a poet. However, he produced several popular works that cemented his reputation as a great novelist of the Victorian period, and earned him the admiration of later writers like D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Hardy''s stories are noted for their nuances of Romantic and Enlightenment thinking, particularly elements of the supernatural. One of what Hardy called his Novels of Ingenuity, The Hand of Ethelberta explores the class distinctions of Victorian England through the trials of Ethelberta Petherwin. By the age of 18, the humble governess and daughter of a butler marries well, only to become a widow two weeks later. In order to support her mother and ten siblings, clever Ethelberta quickly learns to navigate the complex social world as a poetess and storyteller, attracting four persistent suitors along the way. She must decide which man to bestow her hand upon while never revealing her humble origins. Thomas Defendant Hardy, Books, Fiction and Literature, The Hand of Ethelberta Books>Fiction and Literature, Neeland Media<

ISBN: 9781420943412

This novel traces the life of Ethelberta Chickerel, who comes from a family of servants and workmen but lifts herself, via marriage, into high intellectual society, becoming a writer, poe… mais…

This novel traces the life of Ethelberta Chickerel, who comes from a family of servants and workmen but lifts herself, via marriage, into high intellectual society, becoming a writer, poet and storyteller. Fiction Fiction eBook, Digireads.com Publishing<

ISBN: 9781420943412

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