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Thomas Hardy

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Born: June 01 1840

Died: 1010 01 19281928

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 chose to leave one of his protagonists, Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock that has been dead for millions of years. This became the archetypal — and literal — cliff-hanger of Victorian prose.

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

Books from Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Far From the Madding Crowd

Jude the Obscure

The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Return of the Native

The Woodlanders

Under the Greenwood Tree

A Pair of Blue Eyes

The Hand of Ethelberta

Desperate Remedies

Two on a Tower

Life's Little Ironies

A Mere Interlude (Great Loves, #8)

The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888

The Three Strangers

Complete Works of Thomas Hardy

Wessex Tales

The Withered Arm

The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved & The Well-Beloved

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