Writing

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy tunnetaan parhaiten teoksista Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Screen Two, Jude the Obscure ja The Mayor of Casterbridge. Thomas Hardy on syntynyt 2. kesäkuuta 1840. Thomas Hardy kuoli 11. tammikuuta 1928 87-vuotiaana.

Syntynyt: 2. kesäkuuta 1840
Syntymäpaikka: Dorset, England
Kuollut: 11. tammikuuta 1928 (87 v)

Elämäkerta

Thomas Hardy (2 June, 1840 – 11 January, 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England.