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A Woman with a Rich Imagination: Selected Short Stories by Hardy (Bilingual Translation by Lin)
"A Woman with a Rich Imagination - Selected Short Stories by Hardy" selects 10 short stories by the British novelist Hardy: "Building a House", "The Sneeze Thief", "The Shepherd's Four Months Night", "Three Strangers", "An Old Friend from Gaogang", "Old News from the Countryside", "On the Western Patrol", "A Woman with a Rich Imagination", "The Return of the Prodigal Son" and "Old Lady Rose". These stories mostly narrate folklore through memories. The characters in the stories are ordinary but v
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Tess of the D'urbervilles
Hardy's most outstanding work and one of the greatest works of English literature. The novel takes the encounter of the heroine Tess as the main line, describing the conflict between the beautiful poetic image and the surrounding gloomy reality, and vividly and concretely describes the disintegration of the small-scale peasant economy after capitalism invaded the British countryside at the end of the 19th century and the painful process of individual farmers heading towards poverty and bankruptc
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