Thomas Hardy
In addition to his great "Wessex Novels," Thomas Hardy wrote ,Wessex Tales, (1888), a collection of six stories that, for the most part, are as bleakly ironic and unforgiving as the darkest of his great novels -- ,Jude the Obscure., But this great novelist began and ended his writing career as a poet. In-between, he wrote a number of books that many readers find emotionally-wrenching, but which are considered among the classics of 19th Century British literature, including ,Far from the Madding Crowd, , and ,Tess of the D'Urbervilles., Readers will experience Hardy's uncompromising, unsentimental realism in ,Wessex Tales, , and for those seeking a taste of the Dorset poet and novelist, they represent an ideal start.
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Wessex Tales