Thomas Hardy's Collection

Thomas Hardy



This book contains Collection of 16 Best titles of Thomas Hardy.


1: A Changed Man

2: A Few Crusted Characters

3: The Fiddler of the Reels

4: Far from the Madding Crowd

5: Jude the Obscure

6: The Mayor of Casterbridge

7: Return of the Native

8: The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid

9: Tess of the d’Urbervilles

10: The Hand of Ethelberta

11: Life's Little Ironies

12: A Pair of Blue Eyes

13: Two on a Tower

14: Under the Greenwood Tree, or The Mellstock Quire

15: Wessex Tales

16: The Woodlanders


About the Author

Thomas Hardy



Thomas Hardy, {2-6-1840 – 11-01-1928} was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Eliot, he was also influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially by William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens is another important influence on Thomas Hardy. Like Charles Dickens he was also highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life, and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially therefore he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Caster bridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). However, since the 1950s Hardy has been recognized as a major poet, and had a significant influence on The Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Phillip Larkin and Elizabeth Jennings. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. Hardy's Wessex is based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom and eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire, and much of Berkshire, in south west England.