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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Hardy, Thomas

Hardy, Thomas
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Ranald, Ralph A.
Affiliation: Assistant Dean, College Of Arts And Science, New York University

Introduction

Life Of Thomas Hardy:

Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840 in the small village of Higher
Bockhampton, in the parish of Stinsford, in the county of Dorset, which lies
in southwestern England and which was to be immortalized under the name of
Wessex in Hardy's literary work. Hardy's father was a master mason, or what
we would call today a building contractor, but there was a tradition of
gentility in the Hardy family extending back ...

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