Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy ( born June 2, 1840 in Higher Bockhampton in Dorchester, Dorset, † January 11, 1928 in Dorchester ) was an English writer.

Life

The son of a builder went to the architect teaching to London. In 1867 he returned to Dorset and began to produce his work to write as a church restorer. 1871 saw the first of his famous " Wessex " novels, all of which are based in his native environment. From 1878 to 1881 he lived back in London, from 1883 Dorchester.

Hardy left behind an extensive body of work, including 14 novels, many short stories with very different degrees and nearly 1000 poems. The publication of Jew the Obscure caused a scandal, after he decided not to write any more novels. After 1895 he wrote only poetry.

Hardy was married twice. His first wife Emma Lavinia Gifford, whom he married on 17 February 1874, died on 27 November 1912. After eighteen years of widowhood he married on February 10, 1914 again. With his second wife, Florence Emily Dugdale he remained together until his death. His heart was in the churchyard of Stinsford, Dorset, buried; the rest of the body cremated and the ashes interred in Westminster Abbey.

Hardy's Birthplace " Hardy 's Cottage " in Higher Bockhampton, where he lived until the age of 35, and the later residence " Max Gate " in Dorchester are owned by the National Trust.

The range of works Hardys ranges from the realistic and detailed portrayal of country life to the representation of the unexpected, the unusual, suspect, from the tragic to the humorous. He tried to avoid sentimentality. He often uses the sound of oral narrative, for example, in A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four ( in Wessex Tales ).

Works

Novels

Collections of short stories

Collection of poems

Films (selection)

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