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Jim Townsend
Jul 07, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
I read the paperback edition of the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of this first of Thomas Hardy's great novels. Published in 1874 and set in the fictional Wessex counties of southwestern England in the 1860s, is the excellent story of simple farmers, a dashing soldier, a beautiful, rural heiress, love, obsession, betrayal and murder. ...more
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Marie (UK)
Jul 28, 2020 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2020-reading-challenge
It is like a very early Mills & Boon but with literary style and craft to die for. There are sections that just sing from the page
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Nathalie
May 22, 2011 marked it as to-read
Shelves: e-reader
Ligia Lesko
Jan 07, 2012 marked it as to-read
Emma
Feb 27, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: tbr-owned, classics
Katt Hansen
Dec 05, 2012 marked it as to-read
Shelves: books-i-own
Trevor
Apr 22, 2014 rated it really liked it
Shelves: classics
Zoë
Aug 08, 2014 marked it as to-read
Shelves: i-own, victorian-era, classic
Megan
Sep 19, 2014 marked it as to-read
Kate Schnur
Nov 16, 2014 marked it as to-read
Karen Witzler
Apr 28, 2015 marked it as world-enough-and-time
Shelves: aa-sooner, british-classics
Erica
Jun 04, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: erica-s-reading-challenge
Adrienne
Apr 23, 2016 marked it as to-read
Shelves: kindle-mobi, fiction
Khadija.ayan
Jan 23, 2017 marked it as to-read
Charlotte Burt
Jun 08, 2017 rated it really liked it
Chrissie
Sep 11, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Erin
Dec 18, 2017 marked it as tbr-owned  ·  review of another edition
Kathy E
Jan 07, 2022 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics, ebook, z-2022-aty
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Lorna
May 08, 2020 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics
Jim Townsend
Jul 07, 2018 rated it it was amazing
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Becky
Feb 04, 2019 marked it as to-read
Kaitlin
May 06, 2019 marked it as to-read-own  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: own
Viktoriya
Jul 31, 2019 marked it as to-read
Shelves: classics, tbr-tub
Karigan
Apr 22, 2020 marked it as to-read
Jill (Fond of Fiction)
Aug 02, 2020 marked it as to-read
Shelves: classics
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