The life
An architect by training who mapped a fictional Wessex onto real Dorset and filled it with people ruined by timing. His novels were attacked as immoral; after Jude the Obscure he stopped writing fiction and returned to poetry.
He wrote the English countryside as a system humans cannot bargain with.
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NovelVictorian
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy · 1891
A country girl destroyed by other people's definitions of purity.
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NovelVictorian
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy · 1874
A woman inherits a farm and three very different kinds of love.
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