Stella & Rose's Books

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Contents

• FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
• Introduction
• Author's Preface
• Description of Farmer Oak - An Incident
• Night - the Flock - An Interior - Another Interior
• A Girl on Horseback - Conversation
• Gabriel's Resolve - The Visit - the Mistake
• Departure of Bathsheba - A Pastoral Tragedy
• The Fair - The Journey - The Fire
• Recognition - a Timid Girl
• The Malthouse - The Chat - News
• The Homestead - A Visitor - Half-Confidences
• Mistress and Men
• Outside the Barracks - Snow - A Meeting
• Farmers - a Rule - An Exception
• Sortes Sanctorum - The Valentine
• Effect of the Letter - Sunrise
• A Morning Meeting - The Letter Again
• All Saints' and All Souls'
• In the Market-Place
• Boldwood in Meditation - Regret
• The Sheep-Washing - The Offer
• Perplexity - Grinding the Shears - a Quarrel
• Troubles in the Fold - a Message
• The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers
• Eventide - A Second Declaration
• The same Night - The Fir Plantation
• The New Acquaintance described
• Scene on the Berge of the Hay-Mead
• Hiving the Bees
• the Hollow amid the Ferns
• Particulars of a Twilight Walk
• Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes
• Blame - Fury
• Night - Horses Tramping
• In the Sun - A Harbinger
• Home again - a Trickster
• At an Upper Window
• Wealth in Jeopardy - the Revel
• The Storm - The Two together
• Rain - One Solitary meets another
• Coming Home - a Cry
• On Casterbridge Highway
• Suspicion - Fanny is sent for
• Joseph and his Burden - Buck's Head
• Fanny's Revenge
• Under a Tree - Reaction
• Troy's Romanticism
• The Gurgoyle: its Doings
• Adventures by the Shore
• Doubts Arisie - Doubts Linger
• Oak's Advancement - a Great Hope
• The Sheep Fair - Troy touches his Wife's hand
• Bathsheba talks with her Outrider
• Converging Courses
• Concurritur - Horae Momento
• After the Shock
• The March Following - 'Bathsheba Boldwood'
• Beauty in Loneliness - After All
• A Foggy Night and Morning - Conclusion
• TESS OF THE D'UBERVILLES
• Introduction
• Explanatory Note to the First Edition - TH
• Preface to the Fifth and Later Edition - TH
• Phase the First: The Maiden, I-XI
• Phase the Second: Maiden No More, XII-XV
• Phase the Third: The Rally, XVI-XXIV
• Phase the Fourth: The Consequence, XXV-XXXIV
• Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays, XXV-XLIV
• Phase the Sixth: The Convert, XLV-LII
• Phase the Seventh: Fulfilment, LIII-LIX
• THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE
• Introduction
• Author's Preface
• BOOK FIRST: THE THREE WOMEN
• 1. A Face on which Time makes but Little Impression
• 2. Humanity appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
• 3. The Custom of the Country
• 4. The Halt on the Turnpike Road
• 5. Perplexity among Honest People
• 6. The Figure against the Sky
• 7. Queen of the Night
• 8. Those who are Found where there is said to be a Nobody
• 9. Love leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
• 10. A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
• 11. The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
• BOOK SECOND: THE ARRIVAL
• 1. Tidings of the Corner
• 2. The People at Blooms-End make Ready
• 3. How a Little Sound produced a Great Dream
• 4. Eustacia is led on to an Adventure
• 5. Through the Moonlight
• 6. The Two stand face to face
• 7. A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
• 8. Firmness is discovered in a Gentle Heart
• BOOK THIRD: THE FASCINATION
• 1. 'My Mind to me a Kingdom is'
• 2. The New Course causes Disappointment
• 3. The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
• 4. An Hour of Bliss and many Hours of Sadness
• 5. Sharp Words are spoken, and a Crisis ensues
• 6. Yeobright goes, and the Breach is Complete
• 7. The Morning and the Evening of a Day
• 8. A New Force disturbs the Current
• BOOK FOURTH: THE CLOSED DOOR
• 1. The Rencounter by the Pool
• 2. He is set upon by Adversities; but he sings a Song
• 3. She goes out to Battle against Depression
• 4. Rough Coercion is Employed
• 5. The Journey across the Heath
• 6. A Conjuncture, the its Result upon the Pedestrian
• 7. The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
• 8. Eustacia hears of Good Fortune, and beholds Evil
• BOOK FIFTH: THE DISCOVERY
• 1. 'Wherefore is Light given to him that is in Misery?'
• 2. A Lurid Light breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
• 3. Eustacia dresses herself on a Black Monday
• 4. The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
• 5. An Old Move inadvertently repeated
• 6. Thomasin argues with her Cousin and he writes a letter
• 7. The Night of the Sixth of November
• 8. Rain, Darkness and Anxious Wanderers
• 9. Sights and Sounds draw the Wanderers together
• BOOK SIXTH: AFTERCOURSES
• 1. The Inevitable Movement Onward
• 2. Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
• 3. The Serious Discourse of Clym with his Cousin
• 4. Cheerfulness again asserts itself at Blooms-End and Clym finds his Vocation
• JUDE THE OBSCURE
• Introduction
• Preface to the First Edition
• Postscript
• Part First: At Marygreen
• Part Second: At Christminster
• Part Third: At Melchester
• Part Fourth: At Shaston
• Part Fifth: At Aldbridkham and Elsewhere
• Part Sixth: At Christminster Again