Thomas Hardy
author profile
born
June 02, 1840
died
January 11, 1928
gender
male
place of birth
Stinsford, Dorchester, Dorset, The United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry
about this author
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 facination with the supernatural. Though 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 previously ment...more
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy avg rating 3.62 — 13,843 ratings — published 1888 275 editions |
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Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy avg rating 3.78 — 4,751 ratings — published 1895 150 editions |
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Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell avg rating 3.85 — 3,729 ratings — published 1874 145 editions |
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The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, Keith Wilson avg rating 3.73 — 3,643 ratings — published 1886 161 editions |
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The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, Alexander Theroux avg rating 3.75 — 2,551 ratings — published 1878 112 editions |
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The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham avg rating 3.76 — 457 ratings — published 1887 89 editions |
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Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy avg rating 3.52 — 430 ratings — published 1872 62 editions |
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A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy avg rating 3.61 — 321 ratings — published 1873 47 editions |
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Hardy: Selected Poems by Thomas Hardy avg rating 4.00 — 221 ratings — published 1961 16 editions |
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Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles The Mayor of Casterbridge Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy avg rating 3.97 — 193 ratings — published 1994 5 editions |
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"While much is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened."
— Thomas Hardy
— Thomas Hardy
"People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort."
— Thomas Hardy
— Thomas Hardy
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