Essential Novelists - Thomas Hardy: questioning the victorian values

Thomas Hardy · August Nemo

touko 2020 · Essential Novelists Kirja 33 · Tacet Books

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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Thomas Hardywhich areJude the ObscureandTess of the d'Urbervilles. Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. Author of works of great importance, known for the radical pessimism that characterizes his novels. Novels selected for this book: - Jude the Obscure - Tess of the d'Urbervilles This is one of many books in the seriesEssential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

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Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England.