Hopelessly Hardy: The Lives and Deaths of Impressively Named Characters
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Thomas Hardy wrote bleak and often tragic novels of pastoral life in 19th-century Britain. The characters of Hardy’s Wessex—a fictionalized area based on his own home of Dorset—encapsulate the s...
truggles of Victorian society, in which people of high class and good education encounter those of lower, rural ranks. When such contrasting backgrounds meet, whether in familial or romantic contexts, sparks and scandals fly. It can be difficult to follow who loves whom or who dies when among the tangled webs of Wessex… but if it were easy, then it wouldn’t be Hardy.
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