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Thomas Hardy

Born

in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England

June 02, 1840

Died

January 11, 1928

Genre

Fiction, Poetry

Influences

Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, John Milton, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Bro ...more

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Thomas Hardy, OM, was an English author 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. He regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain.

The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873. In the novel, Hardy chos ...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 697,607 ratings · 36,127 reviews · 1,651 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.83 avg rating — 284,672 ratings — published 1891 — 2949 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Far From the Madding Crowd 3.96 avg rating — 153,955 ratings — published 1874 — 1357 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jude the Obscure 3.83 avg rating — 72,027 ratings — published 1895 — 996 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mayor of Casterbridge 3.86 avg rating — 62,616 ratings — published 1886 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Return of the Native 3.88 avg rating — 38,624 ratings — published 1878 — 1648 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham (Introduction) 3.89 avg rating — 16,657 ratings — published 1887 — 1542 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Greenwood Tree 3.65 avg rating — 13,476 ratings — published 1872 — 626 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin (Introduction), Alan Manford (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 8,404 ratings — published 1873 — 743 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two on a Tower 3.70 avg rating — 4,070 ratings — published 1882 — 960 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin (Editor) 3.64 avg rating — 3,613 ratings — published 1876 — 1273 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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