Thomas Hardy
Hardy was the last great Victorian novelist, whose tragic vision of rural life in Wessex combined pastoral beauty with pitiless social determinism. Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure scandalized Victorian readers and remain among the greatest English novels.
Works
- Tess of the d'UrbervillesTragic novel of a woman victimized by circumstance and social hypocrisy
- Far from the Madding CrowdNovel of a shepherdess and three suitors on Wessex during sheep-shearing
- The Mayor of CasterbridgeTragic novel of a man's catastrophic fall from prosperity and dignity
- Jude the ObscureNovel of doomed love and failed intellectual ambitions in industrial England
- The Return of the NativeNovel of passion and fate set on the dark heights of Egdon Heath
- Collected PoemsPoetry collection spanning varied themes and periods of the poet's life
- Satires of CircumstancePoetry collection of satirical and ironic verse on human nature and circumstance
- Winter WordsLate poetry collection published posthumously exploring age and reflection
- The DynastsEpic dramatic poem chronicling the Napoleonic Wars and their human costs