Thomas Hardy and DVDs of his Novels

1998

An adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel, set in the 19th century, of Bathsheba Everdene and the three very different men who come to love her...

1998

The powerful tale of a peasant girl whose life is torn apart by the love and jealousy of two men. Tess's journey from innocent country maiden to tragic ruined heroine is a story of love, prejudice and hypocrisy in an era of Victorian values.

Robert Powell stars as Jude Fawley in this faithful and uncompromising BBC adaptation of one of Thomas Hardy's most bitter and controversial novels.

Born into rural poverty, young Jude Fawley refuses to accept his lot in life. He dreams of the nearby spires of Christmininster. He longs to attend its great universities and better himself in its hallowed halls. But Victorian England is a society in which everyone has their place - and Jude's place is to labour and toil for his betters. As one by one his dreams are shattered, Jude lashes out at the world around him and - in his bitter confusion - his life begins to spiral out of his own control.

1996

Jude Fawley is a stone mason who loves learning. Inspired by one of his teachers, he longs to go to a university. After a brief and unhappy marriage to a practical and pragmatic daughter of a pig farmer, he moves to Christminister to be closer to his beloved scholars. There he meets and falls fatally in love with his cousin, Sue Bridehead, a thoroughly modern young woman whose wit and beauty captivates him. These two lovers join in an illicit union that flouts society’s convention and tragedy ensues. Based on Thomas Hardy’s “Jude The Obscure.”

2004

Eighteen years ago Michael Henchard sold his wife. Now he's the Mayor of Casterbridge and his wife and daughter have returned...

1997

Giles Winterborne and Grace Melbury , an affluent timber-merchant's daughter, are destined to marry from childhood. However, after leaving a fashionable boarding school, Grace's elevation in the world, along with Gile's misfortunes, cause their engagement to be broken off.

Although silently adored by his reclusive soul-mate Marty South , Giles continues to pine for the more refined and elegant Grace, but her head has been turned by the handsome new doctor Eared Fitzpiers . As they continue to follow their lonely courses, their lives become inextricably entwined. Based on the classic novel by Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders is a lavish tale of intense and all-consuming emotion that will captivate viewers' hearts with its scenes of unspoken and undying love.

Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century, Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of a poor young man who falls for a middle-class schoolteacher and attempts to win her over.

1994

Superstition runs rampant in the small town upon the moors where children are locked up at night for fear of cursing, and suspicion of witchcraft is fairly common. Most of the speculation on this subject centers around the beautiful and strange granddaughter of the local reverend. Eustacia Vye keeps to herself, taking long walks upon the moors and haunts the darkness with a bitter solitude. She has also "bewitched" all of the young men in town into falling madly in love with her. Few know Eustacia's true intentions or heart... the fact that more than anything she wants to escape her gray, cruel existence and travel abroad to Paris. The love struck males in her life are but a plaything, something to toy with. Among them is Damon Wildeve, a man of notable reputation with whom she has been carrying on a secret romance, despite his betrothal to the shy and insecure Thomisa Yeobright . Thomisa's mother is not favorable to the match, since she suspects that the boy is involved with the "local witch." But love wins over prejudice and the pair are allowed to marry; Damon in loathing as Eustacia releases him conveniently from her grasp... she has a better quarry. Thomisa's cousin Clym is a man of some means with a teaching position abroad in France, and he's coming back to his childhood home to spend a few months' needed rest. Seeing him as her means of escape from the moors and taking into consideration what the natives are saying about how fine a pair they would make, Eustacia uses all of her powers to bring her into Clym's world... just glimpses does she give him of her pretty face and mysterious aura. And it works like a charm... bewitched, he begins to court her out despite his mother's warnings.

Thomas Hardy

Concise Biography

1991

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