Questions about the works of Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist and poet, or his life as a writer. His novels include "Far From the Madding Crowd" (1874), "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (1886) and "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" (1891).
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Did Thomas Hardy's books get more miserable with time, and was this because of his own life?
Thomas Hardy is best known for his tragic romances, novels which are really miserable and depressing to read. However, not all of them are equally so:
Far From the Madding Crowd, one of his first novels, actually has a happy ending for the main…
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Where or when did Thomas Hardy divide his novels and short stories into three classes?
The Wikipedia article about Thomas Hardy says that
Hardy divided his novels and collected short stories into three classes:[citation needed]
The statement has no source. Charlotte Barrett's article Character and Environment in Thomas Hardy's…
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Why Thomas Hardy set up his novels in cities of imaginary names?
Jude Fawley was living in Marygreen and went to Chirstminster, Christminster was a place of wisdom for him and due to some other details we infer that Hardy’s Chrisminster was intact Oxford.
Far From the Madding Crowd is set is Wessex, an imaginary…
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