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HARDY, THOMAS (1840-1928)

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From: Young Students Learning Library
Date: 19960101
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The English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was born in the county of Dorset, England. He worked first as an architect, but after his novel Far From the Madding Crowd won him fame in 1874, he turned to writing as a career.

Among his greatest novels are The Return of the Native, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure. The setting of Hardy's stories is usually the landscape of the fictional county of Wessex, based on his native Dorset. The life he describes is often bleak and sad, and he often wrote about tragic love between men and women.

Later, Hardy turned to ...

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