Hardy – författare

'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire'Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.Early readers responded to Hardy's 'insatiably observant' descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. H. Lawrence provided the 'real stuff of tragedy'. For modern readers, the tension between the mythic setting of the heath and the modernity of the characters challenges our freedom to shape the world as we wish; like Eustacia, we may not always be able to live our dreams.This edition has a critically established text based on the manuscript and first edition, and without the later changes that substantially altered Hardy's original intentions.

Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe examines the consequences of the sixteenth-century Reformation for the study of ancient texts and of the past in general. The volume offers the most comprehensive account thus far of the relationship between religious identity-formation and the history of knowledge in early modern Europe.

Dr Hardy has attempted a general history of British India's Muslims with a deeper perspective. He shows how the interplay of memories of past Muslim supremacy, Islamic religious aspirations and modern Muslim social and economic anxieties with the political needs of the alien ruling power gradually fostered a separate Muslim politics. Dr Hardy argues (contrary to the usual view) that Muslims were able to take political initiatives because, in the region of modern Uttar Pradesh, British rule before 1857 and even the events of the Mutiny and Rebellion of 1857-8 had not been economically disastrous for most of them. He stresses the force of religion in the growth of Muslim political separatism, showing how the 'modernists' kept the conversation among Muslims within Islamic postulates and underlining the role of the traditional scholars in heightening popular religious feeling. Regarding any sense of Muslim political unity and nationhood as an outcome of the period of British rule, Dr Hardy shows the limitations and frailty of that unity and nationhood by 1947.

The past few years have brought an influx of new information into the field of male reproduction. Several laboratories have been able to apply the genomics approach to gene expression in the male, revealing previously unknown patterns of gene expression and gene products that were localized in male reproductive tract tissues and cells for the first time. These discoveries paved the way for the next wave, an opportunity to analyze male reproductive biology and the processes by which sperm are formed in the seminiferous tubule and androgen is synthesized in the interstitium of the testis. The different levels of organization in the testis, including the stages of spermatogenesis, enzymatic steps of steroidogenesis, and the intracellular signaling pathways of hormones, are now more amenable to study and selection of potential targets for drug development. This volume capitalizes on these developments with a collection of reports that is uniquely suited to stimulate research and development ideas. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas.ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member.

Nel momento in cui si conoscono, Gabriel Oak e Bathsheba Everdene sono due persone antitetiche: fattore benestante, dai modi un po’ frugali, il primo; bellissima e nullatenente, ospite di una zia, la seconda. Nonostante l’invidiabile posizione sociale del signor Oak, Bathsheba rifiuta la sua appassionata corte. Dopo una terribile tempesta, tuttavia, i ruoli si invertono: Bathsheba ha ora ereditato la florida azienda agricola dello zio, mentre Gabriel, caduto in miseria, è costretto a farsi assumere proprio da lei come pastore. Per lungo tempo, ancora, Gabriel dovrà contendersi con altri uomini l’amore di Bathsheba, in particolare col vicino di casa William Boldwood e col sergente Francis Troy. Posto dal prestigioso “The Guardian” al decimo posto fra le storie d’amore più belle mai raccontate, “Via dalla pazza folla” è un romanzo struggente, in cui la sorte dà o toglie senza pietà, e in cui la spinta vitale data dall’amore sembra essere l’unica via di scampo… Quella di Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) è stata senz’altro un’esistenza consacrata alla letteratura. Pochi eventi, infatti, concorrono ad arricchire la sua ben scarna biografia: nato a Higher Bockhampton, nel Dorset, studia architettura e si trasferisce a Londra, dove esercita per breve tempo la professione. Nel 1874 sposa Emma Lavinia Gifford, con cui vivrà in una quieta casa di campagna fino al 1912, quando, rimasto vedovo, sposerà Florence Emily Dugdale. Nel corso dei lunghi anni trascorsi al cottage di Max Gate, scrive innumerevoli opere, fra romanzi e poesie. Al momento della sua morte, nel 1928, Thomas Hardy è considerato un pilastro della narrativa vittoriana, avendo prodotto alcuni capolavori indiscussi come “Tess dei D’Urbervilles”, “Estremi rimedi” e “Jude l’oscuro”.

Gdy znajdziesz się na granicy śmierci, już zawsze będziesz kochał życie.Rok 1938, Bydgoszcz. Osiemnastoletni Robert Meissner mieszka ze swoją zgorzkniałą matką, pragnąc w końcu rozpocząć samodzielne, dorosłe życie. Dzięki sąsiadce, pani Anieli, która zawsze ma dla niego czas i słowa otuchy, łatwiej jest mu radzić sobie z trudami codzienności. W końcu nadchodzi moment, na który długo czekał - powołanie do wojska otwiera Robertowi drzwi do nowych przygód, doświadczeń i podróży. Wojenna zawierucha rzuca go w różne części Europy, a zadania, jakie postawi przed nim los, będą niezmiernie wymagającym egzaminem jego dojrzałości.„Jazda na rydwanie” to epicka, pełna napięcia i emocji powieść, w której wydarzenia historyczne przeplatają się z porywającymi wątkami miłosnymi, a odmalowane z pietyzmem realia życia z czasów II wojny światowej pozwalają przenieść się do świata, którego już nie ma.Świetna, wciągająca powieść! Napisana z epickim rozmachem i pieczołowitością w odtwarzaniu historycznych detali.. Nie ma nic wspólnego z nostalgiczną aurą Sienkiewiczowskiego „Latarnika”, jest raczej skrzyżowaniem powieści szpiegowskiej i erotycznej, z przyprawą balzakowskiego motywu człowieka wspinającego się po drabinie społecznej i ekonomicznej. Wszystko to opowiedziane bez fałszywych nut, z literacką swadą.Zbigniew Wojnarowski – pisarzJulian Hardy stworzył wielki fresk z okresu II wojny światowej. To opowieść o wręcz nieprawdopodobnych losach i przygodach głównego bohatera, na którego największy wpływ ma historia, przedstawiona nie tylko jako tło wydarzeń, ale przenikliwa diagnoza rzeczywistości.Andrzej Dębkowski, gazetakulturalna.zelow.pl„Jazda na rydwanie” to kunsztownie napisana, epicka powieść o ludzkim losie, który potrafi kreować najbardziej nieprzewidywalne scenariusze. Ta historia o miłości, pożądaniu, trudnych decyzjach i dziejowych zawirowaniach, mających wpływ na życie jednostki, trzyma w napięciu do ostatniej strony. Nie sposób oderwać się od tej książki!Wioleta Sadowska, subiektywnieoksiazkach.plJulian Hardy - polski pisarz, autor „Jazdy na rydwanie”. Autor powieści bardzo ceni sobie swoją prywatność i pragnie, by informacje na jego temat pozostały tajemnicą...