San Antonio College Library

The novels and poems of Hardy are set in the land of his birth, Dorset, which he called by its ancient name of Wessex. Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure all draw their characters, their daily activities, the locales in which they are set, from the farmers and farriers, shopkeepers and schoolteachers, from the towns and fields and coastline, from the sights and...

After reluctantly moving from New York City to a run-down farm in Dorset to live with her mother and stepfamily, thirteen-year-old Jenny Gluckstein finds a kindred spirit in the ghost of Tamsin Wiloughby. Tamsin, who introduces Jenny to the intriguing night world inhabited by a variety of English spirits, mourns Edric, the young man lost to her during the Bloody Assizes that followed Monmouth's Rebellion, and appears threatened by an unknown evil....

The story centers around two newlyweds, Edward and Florence Mayhew, both virgins who must struggle through their internal battle with sexual anxiety.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing home for rich patients being treated by the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell.