Hardy Thomas
Hardy's Wessex novels taken together constitute the most sustained regional fiction in English, mapping a disappearing rural England onto the map of human fate with tragic grandeur. The Woodlanders and The Return of the Native are as important as his two most famous novels.
Works
- The WoodlandersTragedy of rural love and woodcraft set in the English countryside
- The Return of the NativeNovel of passion and fate on Egdon Heath, a wild English landscape
- Under the Greenwood TreeRural love story of two young people in a Wessex village
- A Pair of Blue EyesNovel of romantic rivalry and tragedy among four young people
- Two on a TowerNovel of love and astronomy on a rural English tower