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Wessex Tales
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This collection of short stories by Thomas Hardy is set in his fictional Wessex, portraying rural life in nineteenth-century southwest England. It suits readers of Victorian literature, English short fiction, and those studying Hardy's work.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. 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.
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