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"The Return of the Native" is a representative "novel of character and environment" written by the famous British writer Thomas Hardy. The work is set in the Egtown Wasteland in Wessex, southwest England, and describes the different tragic fates of five young men and women. The heroine Eustacia is one of the most successfully described heroines in contemporary British novels, and Egtown Heath, where the story takes place, is a model of landscape description. It is an important sign that Hardy's novel art begins to mature, and is one of Hardy's important works.

"Jude the Obscure" is Hardy's masterpiece. The novel mainly describes the study experience of a young man named Jude and his short life encounters. It also depicts the customs and folk customs of the British countryside at the end of the 19th century, presenting a picture of secular customs in front of readers.

"Tess" is one of Hardy's important masterpieces. The novel takes the experiences of the heroine Tess as the main line, describing the conflict between the beautiful poetic image and the surrounding gloomy reality. It vividly 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 bankruptcy. Through the description of the double persecution suffered by a pure woman both mentally and physically, it reveals the rich and profound spiritual world of a woman, and boldly and ruthlessly exposes and accuses the laws, religion, ethics, marriage system and the essence of capitalism in capitalist society.

The work is set in Egdon Moor in southwestern England, and takes the opportunity of the return of young Clem to his hometown. It describes the love entanglement between Eustacia and Clem, Wade and Thomasin. Among them, Eustacia, portrayed by Hardy, is beautiful, intelligent, maverick, and adventurous, but her yearning for a flashy world and her lack of commitment to love and marriage make her a model of vain and frivolous women. She is one of the most successful heroines in contemporary British novels, and the description of Egdon Heath, where the story takes place, is a model of landscape description. "The Return" is an important sign that Hardy's novel art has begun to mature. It is a representative "character and environment novel" in Hardy's works.

Tess is a beautiful country girl, pure, kind, resilient and able to distinguish between good and evil. Because his family was poor, he worked for the d'Urberville family, a noble family with the same surname as himself. As a result, she was seduced by her master's son, Alec d'Urberville, and gave birth to an illegitimate son. Because of this "sin," Tess is despised. Under tremendous pressure and with the death of her child, Tess left home to work in a dairy farm and met Angel Clare, the pastor's daughter-in-law. The two fell in love and got married. But on their wedding night, Tess confessed her past to him, and Angel abandoned her and went to Brazil alone. Living in poverty and being humiliated, Tess waits for Angel's return to no avail, and becomes Alec's mistress. At this moment, Angel came to Tess with a feeling of repentance and wanted to be with her again. At this point Tess kills Alec. On their way to escape, Tess was caught by the police and sentenced to death.

"Selected Novels and Novels by Hardy" selects seventeen of Hardy's most representative short stories, fully reflecting the author's artistic style and literary value. Hardy's short stories have concise and concise writing, natural and relaxed style, and strong storytelling and readability. This book is translated by Zhang Ling and Zhang Yang.

"The Mayor of Casterbridge" is a novel written by the British novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. It is a part of the "Wessex Novel System" and was published in 1886. The work tells the story of the protagonist Henchard, who was originally a haymaker who betrayed his wife and daughter due to drunkenness. He later regretted it, never drank again, worked hard to get rich, and became the mayor of Casterbridge twenty years later. Later, his wife and daughter returned to him, but disasters also followed... Through this tragic description, the author reveals the disasters that capitalist development has brought to the working people, and condemns the irrationality of the capitalist system. This book is translated by Zhang Ling and Zhang Yang.

This set of books includes a total of 7 volumes of Hardy's classic novels, namely "In vain", "Far from the Dust", "The Return of the Native", "The Mayor of Casterbridge", "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", "Jude the Obscure" and "Selected Short and Novels". The translation was chosen by Zhang Guruo and other translators. It was very popular among readers after it came out. Now it has been out of stock for many years and is no longer in stock. In this reprint, the translation has been revised for excellence. It is a set of literary classics worth savoring and collecting.

The poor and beautiful heroine Tess loses her virginity to Alec, a bad boy from a rich family because of her youth and ignorance. She suffers mental and material torture, and loses her true love Claire because of it. Finally, she kills Alec out of grief, anger and despair, and walks to the gallows calmly. The great charm and courage of Tess's humanity and soul make her one of the most touching female images in the literary gallery. Hardy vividly demonstrates his deep-rooted tragic outlook on fate and broad and profound humanistic compassion through the tragic experiences of the pure and beautiful Tess's short life.

Hardy's poems are cold, profound, delicate, beautiful, concise and concise, unique in style, and more modern than his novels. The themes of his poems began to face more social reality and more comprehensively reflected the mental state of the Victorian social change period. This book selects more than 150 poems by the British writer and poet Thomas Hardy and translates them one by one to show Hardy's poetic creation achievements and superb poetic skills, comment on his poetic spirit and life attitude, and help readers understand that Hardy's poems are the poems that best reflect the essential characteristics of English. Hardy is the founder and defender of essential factors in British poetry, and his poetic concepts and works represented the mainstream of English poetry at that time.

This tragic work is the representative work of the British novelist Hardy. It tells the story of Tess, a poor and beautiful peasant girl who goes to work in the landlord's manor house. She loses her virginity to Alec, a bad boy from a rich family because of her youth and ignorance, and returns to her hometown pregnant. After her child died, she fell in love with Angel Clare, the son of a pastor. However, on their wedding night, she confessed the truth about losing her virginity and was not tolerated by her husband, who fled to Brazil. After Tess was abandoned, she went to work in a dairy factory. Alec, a young landowner, pesters Tess again and again. When her father died, her mother fell ill, her siblings were out of school, the family lived on the streets, and there was no news from Claire, Tess had no choice but to sacrifice her life to save her family and agreed to live with Alec. Unexpectedly, Claire changes her mind and comes back from Brazil to look for Tess. Tess was filled with regret and stabbed Alec to death. During the escape, Tess and her husband spent a few days living happily, and were finally caught and sentenced to hanging. As one of Hardy's "Wessex Series", this book is the most typical of his "character and environment novels". Its remarkable artistic feature is that the environment and the protagonist respond, set off and are closely connected with each other - the character's joy, anger, sorrow and the changes in the mood and color of the environment form an inseparable whole, and the environment predicts the character's fate and emotions.

This book selects Hardy's short stories purely from the perspective of love. "An Imaginative Woman", "Beautiful Singleness", etc., Are euphemistic and beautiful, with vivid plots and rich characters. Although Hardy has been away from us for many years, there is no sense of distance when reading these works of his.

Tess, a declining aristocratic girl, is pure and kind. Unexpectedly, she was raped by Eric, a young man from a wealthy family, and her life changed drastically from then on. Tess regained her strength and met a new love in the dairy farm, but was abandoned by her lover Angel because of her bad past. Tucked by fate, the desperate Tess finally ended her short life in a tragic way.