The Complete Novels of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

The Complete Novels of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

by Thomas HardyHelen Paterson Allingham J. Abbott Pasquier and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 09/12/2017

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This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Under the Greenwood Tree Far from the Madding Crowd The Return of the Native The Mayor of Casterbridge The Woodlanders Tess of the d'Urbervilles Jude the Obscure A Pair of Blue Eyes The Trumpet-Major Two on a Tower The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid The Well-Beloved Desperate Remedies The Hand of Ethelberta A Laodicean The Complete Novels of Thomas Hardy contains all 15 classics of this great Victorian author. His novels mainly concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances, and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex, based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. His most famous novels include Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure.

ISBN:
9788026862741
9788026862741
Category:
Literary studies: general
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
09-12-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
e-artnow
Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840. His first published novel was Desperate Remedies in 1871. Such was the success of these early works, which included A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) and Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), that he gave up his work as an architect to concentrate on his writing.

However, he had difficulty publishing Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1889) and was forced to make changes in order for it to be judged suitable for family readers. This, coupled with the stormy reaction to the negative tone of Jude the Obscure (1895), prompted Hardy to abandon writing novels altogether and he concentrated on poetry for the rest of his life. He died in January 1928.

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