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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: The famous tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse: a new version of an old story arranged as a play for mummers, in one act, requiring no theatre or scenery

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  • Cover of: The melancholy hussar
    First published in 1890 1 edition

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  • Cover of: Far from the madding crowd
    First published in 1895 1 edition

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  • Cover of: The fiddler of the reels and other stories, 1888-1900

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  • Cover of: The Mayor of Casterbridge
    First published in 2017 1 edition

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  • Cover of: Wessex poems and other verses ; Poems of the past and the present

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  • Cover of: The trumpet-major: A tale
    First published in 1881 1 edition

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  • Cover of: ראש העיר קסטרברידג׳: חייו ומותו של איש בעל אופי

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  • Cover of: Selected poems of Thomas Hardy
    First published in 1981 1 edition

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  • Cover of: The woodlanders
    First published in 1900 1 edition

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  • Cover of: Under the Greenwood Tree
    First published in 2017 1 edition

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  • Cover of: The Woodlanders
    First published in 2017 1 edition

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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall: Literature: The British Tradition

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  • Cover of: Mayor of Casterbridge

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  • Cover of: Woodlanders Illustrated

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Born 2 June 1840
Died 11 January 1928

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