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    Song of the Soldiers' Wives
    Song of the Soldiers' Wives
    Song of the Soldiers' Wives
    Audiobook27 minutes

    Song of the Soldiers' Wives

    Written by Thomas Hardy

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    Thomas Hardy is regarded as one of the best English novelists. His novels are heartbreaking, unconventional, sad and lyrical. He also wrote many poems. This is one of the best. This is the weekly poem for the week starting at 5 August 2012. (Summary by Stav Nisser)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Song of the Soldiers' Wives
    Author

    Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.

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