LibriVox volunteers bring you seven different recordings of The Oxen, by Thomas Hardy. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 17th, 2006.

The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart,...

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was a celebrated English novelist and poet known for his profound exploration of human nature and social issues. His works, including "Tess of the...

Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardys novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who...

The Well-Beloved tells the story of Jocelyn Pierston and his love for three generations of women - the grandmother, her daughter and grand-daughter over a period of forty years....

The Woodlanders is one of Hardys later novels, although he originally intended it as a successor to Far From The Madding Crowd. It concerns the life and loves of Giles...

Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband died two weeks after the wedding. Her...

The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen Smith is a socially inferior but...

A young man from a poor, working-class background, passionate about education, who aspires to become a professor. His teacher, a respected role model who turns out to have feet of...

Like all of Hardys work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and...