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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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Average rating: 3.87 · 744,313 ratings · 41,531 reviews · 2,273 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 301,740 ratings — published 1891 — 3336 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 — 165,674 ratings — published 1874 — 2869 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 3.83 avg rating — 75,800 ratings — published 1895 — 789 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 — 65,950 ratings — published 1886 — 2034 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 — 40,378 ratings — published 1878 — 14 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 — 17,820 ratings — published 1887 — 1628 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 — 14,581 ratings — published 1872 — 1092 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 — 9,025 ratings — published 1873 — 1032 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 — 4,540 ratings — published 1882 — 1012 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 3.78 avg rating — 3,627 ratings — published 1871 — 955 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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