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Reinier Gerritsen,Rene Put,Boris Kachka
Introduction titled The Discovery of Good Books written by Boris Kachka.
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Maritza Gerritsen
This study is about assessing conversational skills at four North-western European schools of Social Work. The goal of the research is to find out what skills are assessed and how…
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Rosemary Hayes,Hayes Rosemary
Tess is pony mad but her mum can’t afford riding lessons.When a group of travellers come to live in the village, Tess secretly visits their horses. As she makes friends…
Annie Seaton
Spend a month on Pentecost Island and experience an amazing adventure between nine friends, the challenges they face, the past threatening to come between them, and their enduring friendship as…
Mark Pickerel And His Praying Hands
Diana Nixon
USA Today BESTSELLER I had been a rebel as long as I could remember. Following the rules had never been my major. But breaking the rules of Le Papillon meant…
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Kirsten McDougall
Set in Masterton at the turn of the millennium, Tess is a gothic love story about the ties that bind and tear a family apart.
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Esther Gerritsen
After her husband’s death, the grieving Roxy embarks on an all-female road-trip with their daughter, his personal assistant, and the babysitter.
John Gerritsen
This is the story of a long term role as a ranger in a multifaceted position involving land management for habitat preservation and ultimately public visitation where understanding and interpretation…
Ben Gerritsen
Anne Gerritsen
Drawing on local sources, including local gazetteers and literati inscriptions for religious sites, this book offers a comprehensive examination of what it means to be ‘local’ during the Southern Song…
Maaike Gerritsen
There are very few testing tools on the market today that combine testing and coverage. The tools that do combine these two element use a very simple coverage metric. This…
Rupert Gerritsen
In this work the author explores issues of the origin of agriculture in Australia such as the failure of agriculture to develop indigenously, and its failure to diffuse into Australia…
Roos Gerritsen
This book is an ethnographic analysis of the familial life worlds of fans of a movie star named Rajinikanth as well as his appropriation into networks of patronage, praise and…
Frans Gerritsen
An overview of the theories of color from antiquity to the present. An indispensable study for all who work with color including artists, glazers, architects, decorators, designers, ceramic and textile…
This book presents the half-century’s history of Tess of the D'Urbervilles on the stage together with the texts of significant dramatic versions.
Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
Anne Gerritsen demonstrates the key role Chinese porcelain played in the creation of early modern global connections. Through its manufacture and global consumption, China participated in the early modern world…
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a young woman forced by her family's poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urberville family. Violated by the son…
Buffy Andrews
Sometimes we forget why we fell in love in the first place… Falling in love was easy for Jeremy and Tess-but that was college. Now, they have everything they could’ve…
Lindsay Anderson
Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome number 134 to the stage! The announcer said into the microphone.As the crowd clapped and cheered for me, and as I made my way onto…
The story of a simple country girl whose family’s pretentions lead to her destruction.
A tale of love, seduction and betrayal.
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A novel of hypocrisy and double standards. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient…
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Hardy's dramatic and controversial novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles is considered by literary scholars to be his life's masterwork. Set within Hardy's fictional county of Wessex in the 1870s, the…
First published in three volumes in 1891.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her ‘cousin’ Alec proves to be…
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Mariella Starr
Micah McKenna had spent the last five years becoming the man he was meant to be. He was no longer a pushover, going along, rather than fighting for what he…
This version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles includes a biography of the author Thomas Hardy at the end of the book- This includes life before and after the release of…
Thomas Hardy wrote a book titled Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented. The British illustrated journal The Graphic first published it in a censored and serialized form…
Set in Hardy’s Wessex, this is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that…
Hardys novel introduced his most memorable tragic heroine, Tess, an impoverished young woman who must fend for herself in a world where she is only valued for her uses to…
Kimberly M Miller
Tess Carson has finally turned her life around. After a string of bad decisions, she’s making amends, paying debts, and working to bring her family back together. But when Tess’s…
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never…
Karen Swallow Prior
The next clothbound classic in bestselling literary scholar Karen Swallow Prior’s series reflecting on the full original text through a Christian and literary worldview.