Cover of Selected Stories of Thomas Hardy

Selected Stories of Thomas Hardy

by Unknown Author

1999Penguin Publishing GroupISBN 9780140435337

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
1999
ISBN
9780140435337

About Unknown Author

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.

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