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Thomas Hardy

Born

in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England

June 02, 1840

Died

January 11, 1928

Genre

Fiction, Poetry

Influences

Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, John Milton, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Bro ...more

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Thomas Hardy, OM, was an English author 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. He regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain.

The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873. In the novel, Hardy chos ...more

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	Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 305,891 ratings — published 1891 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Far From the Madding Crowd 3.97 avg rating — 168,595 ratings — published 1874 — 2839 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jude the Obscure 3.84 avg rating — 76,833 ratings — published 1895 — 1921 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mayor of Casterbridge 3.87 avg rating — 66,788 ratings — published 1886 — 2027 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Return of the Native 3.88 avg rating — 40,842 ratings — published 1878 — 1872 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham (Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 18,119 ratings — published 1887 — 1621 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Greenwood Tree 3.64 avg rating — 14,860 ratings — published 1872 — 1090 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin (Introduction), Alan Manford (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 9,173 ratings — published 1873 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two on a Tower 3.71 avg rating — 4,647 ratings — published 1882 — 1007 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy, Mary Rimmer 3.79 avg rating — 3,684 ratings — published 1871 — 727 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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