The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters

Name: The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters
Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9781802568509

Author: Thomas Hardy
Read by: Eloise Fairfax
Language: English
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
ISBN: 9781802568509
Published: 1 September 2025
Imprint: Sovereign

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Butler’s daughter Ethelberta climbs as poet and storyteller while hiding her family’s station, juggling suitors and class games with comic nerve. Social satire with a climbing heroine. Spoken as Hardy when wit is the only ladder that works.

Author

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) gave English literature its most unforgettable tragic landscapes — the imagined county of Wessex, where heath, village, and market town hold the fate of ordinary lives. In Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Far from the Madding Crowd, he wrote characters undone by chance, desire, and the hard edges of Victorian society.

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Ebook · English · Sovereign9781910558041