Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) was a novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, who delineated characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex, is marked by poetic descriptions, and fatalism. His works are pessimistic and bitterly ironic. His writing is rough but capable of immense power. Hardy had an eye for poignant detail; he kept clippings from newspaper reports of real events and used them as details in his novels. Hardy's work reflected his stoical pessimism and sense of tragedy in human life.

Books & Short Stories Jude the Obscure Tess of the d'Urbervilles The Mayor of Casterbridge

Poetry A Thunderstorm in Town The Darkling Thrush The Man He Killed The Oxen Weathers