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June 30, 2023 | History

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.

While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.

Born 2 June 1840
Died 11 January 1928

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  • Cover of: Far from the Madding Crowd Volume III

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  • Cover of: Far Madding Crowd N-Wessex Pr N/S Hardy

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  • Cover of: Fifty-seven Poems by Thomas Hardy

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  • Cover of: A Group of Noble Dames (Collected Works of Thomas Hardy)

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  • Cover of: Group of Noble Dames (Works of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse, Vol 14)

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  • Cover of: The Hand of Ethelberta A Comedy in Chapters, Volume I

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  • Cover of: The Hand of Ethelberta A Comedy in Chapters, Volume II

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  • Cover of: Hand of Ethelberta (Works of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse, Vol 16)

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  • Cover of: The Hand Of Ethhelberta - A Comedy In Chapters

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  • Cover of: The Harvard Collected Works of Thomas Hardy

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  • Cover of: Heinemann Guided Readers
    First published in 1993 1 edition

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  • Cover of: Herzen in Aufruhr.
    First published in 1997 1 edition

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  • Cover of: I Have Lived in the Shadows: Poems and Prose to Celebrate the Centenary of Hardy's Wessex Poems

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  • Cover of: Jeugteater 3
    First published in 1990 1 edition

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  • Cover of: John Loveday, der Stabstrompeter.

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  • Cover of: Jude the Obscure Volume I
    First published in 2006 1 edition

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  • Cover of: La\Bien­Aimee
    First published in 1981 1 edition

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  • Cover of: A la lumière des étoiles
    First published in 1999 1 edition

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  • Cover of: Laodicean a Story of Today
    First published in 1984 1 edition

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  • Cover of: Laodicean
    First published in 2003 1 edition

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Born 2 June 1840
Died 11 January 1928

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