Thomas Hardy
Author · 1840–1928

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet (1840–1928). Born in Dorchester.

Our catalogue lists 16 books by Thomas Hardy, mostly classic romance, historical fiction and gothic fiction. They span 1707 to 1895. The most-read is Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1707). 12 titles are free to read on Project Gutenberg, and 7 have free LibriVox audiobooks.

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Biography

Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet 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. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.

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