{"product_id":"the-thomas-hardy-omnibus-4-great-novels-and-7-short-stories-hardy","title":"The Thomas Hardy Omnibus: 4 Great Novels and 7 Short Stories by Thomas Hardy (1978)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eHardy's Wessex brought together in one volume\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVintage Good Condition\u003c\/strong\u003e - Dust jacket shows wear with chips and small tears along the top edge and spine ends, plus light rubbing. Page edges are with some light spotting, otherwise pages are clean and tidy. Published 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour of Thomas Hardy's major novels and seven stories from Wessex Tales come together in this substantial omnibus, introduced by Edward Le Comte. The selection includes Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Woodlanders and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, offering a broad encounter with Hardy's fictional countryside and the lives shaped within it. Love, social expectations, ambition and the consequences of past decisions run through these accounts of rural communities and individual longing. The shorter fiction extends the collection's range while retaining Hardy's close attention to character and circumstance. A convenient volume for readers discovering his work or returning to some of the most enduring narratives of nineteenth-century English literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Value Junction ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68227792437460,"sku":"TVJ-035887","price":40.25,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/3059\/2980\/files\/TVJ-035887-1.jpg?v=1793319065","url":"https:\/\/thevaluejunction.co.nz\/products\/the-thomas-hardy-omnibus-4-great-novels-and-7-short-stories-hardy","provider":"The Value Junction ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}