Hardy's novel about the trials of a poor stonemason excoriates convention -- particularly the institutions of marriage, religion, and education -- in a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Author's Preface
part first: At Marygreen
part second: At Christminster
part third: At Melchester
part fourth: At Shaston
part fifth: At Aldbrickham and Elsewhere
part sixth: At Christminster Again