Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was born in the rural Dorset that would become the fictional Wessex of his novels. Trained as an architect, he turned to writing and produced a string of masterpieces—Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess, and Jude the Obscure—that mapped the collision between traditional rural life and the forces of modernity. This author hub collects 3 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Start with Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, ranked #117 in the Canon Compass list.
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Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles: a pure woman destroyed by Victorian hypocrisy. A devastating novel of innocence, injustice, and fate.
Hardy's searing final novel follows a poor stonemason's crushed dreams of education and forbidden love in Victorian England.
Thomas Hardy's tragic tale follows a man's rise and fall as he battles his own nature and a past he cannot escape.