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About Thomas Hardy
English novelist, poet and architect
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist, he wrote about the tensions of his time and looked closely at social change, especially in rural Britain. He is known for novels and poetry shaped by both realism and Romanticism, including the influence of William Wordsworth. His work is often sharply critical of Victorian society, and it pays close attention to the changing position of rural people in Britain, especially in his native South West England.
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Books by Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
1920
The Mayor of Casterbridge
1983
Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire
1872
Jude the Obscure
2007
The Woodlanders
1887