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  <name><![CDATA[Thomas Hardy]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;Thomas Hardy&lt;/b&gt;, 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 &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;cliffhanger&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel [book:A Pair of Blue Eyes|110077] in 1873. In the previously mentioned novel Hardy chose to leave one of his protagonists, Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock that has been dead for millions of years. This became the archetypal — and literal — cliff-hanger of Victorian prose.

&lt;i&gt;Excerpted from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;

See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3101699._&quot;&gt;توماس هاردي&lt;/a&gt;.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Stinsford, Dorchester, Dorset</hometown>  <born_at>06/02/1840</born_at>  <died_at>01/11/1928</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Tess of the D'Urbervilles]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Jude the Obscure]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Far from the Madding Crowd]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Rosemarie Morgan]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Shannon Russell]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Mayor of Casterbridge]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Keith Wilson]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Return of the Native]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alexander Theroux]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Woodlanders]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Patricia Ingham]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.77</average_rating>
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  <published>1887</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Under the Greenwood Tree]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas Hardy]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Pair of Blue Eyes]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas Hardy]]></name>
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  <published>1873</published>  
  
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        <book id="33015">
  <title><![CDATA[Hardy: Selected Poems]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas Hardy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
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  <published>1961</published>  
  
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        <book id="68980">
  <title><![CDATA[Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles The Mayor of Casterbridge Far from the Madding Crowd]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas Hardy]]></name>
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  <published>1994</published>  
  
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