This profile celebrates the life and works of Thomas Hardy. All works listed here are in the public domain. This profile is maintained by the Wattpad Ambassadors.
Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Eliot, he was also influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially by William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens is another important influence on Thomas Hardy. Like Dickens, he was also highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.
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Stories by Thomas Hardy
- 6 Published Stories
A Pair of Blue Eyes (Completed)
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"A Pair of Blue Eyes" is the third novel by Thomas Hardy, and the first to be published in his own...
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THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE (Complet...
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), subtitled "The Life and Death of a Man of Character", is a novel...
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Jude the Obscure (1895) (Completed)
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"Jude the Obscure" tells the story of Jude Fawley, a village stonemason in the southern English reg...
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