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Thomas Hardy: The Best Works
Thomas Hardy: The Best Works
Thomas Hardy: The Best Works
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Here you will find the complete novels of Thomas Hardy in the chronological order of their original publication.

- Desperate Remedies
- Under the Greenwood Tree
- A Pair of Blue Eyes
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- The Hand of Ethelberta
- The Return of the Native
- The Trumpet-Major
- A Laodicean: a Story of To-day
- Two on a Tower
- The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- The Woodlanders
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Life's Little Ironies
- Jude the Obscure

Includes Bonus two short stories
- The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1
- The Three Strangers
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFlip
Release dateApr 23, 2018
ISBN9782291012535
Thomas Hardy: The Best Works
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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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