Formerly a prize-winning architectural student, Thomas Hardy
(1840-1928) went on to become a prolific novelist and poet. Tess of
the D'Urbervilles, set in the 'partly real, partly dream-country'
of Wessex, was at first refused publication and then published in
censored form, shocking readers in the challenge it posed to social
and sexual mores.
Hardy's novels Under the Greenwood Tree, Far From the Madding
Crowd, The Return of the Native, Two on a Tower, The Mayor of
Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure are also published in the Penguin
English Library.
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