Thomas Hardy

The novel critiques social and moral conventions. This topic is part of Authors within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 4 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.

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Thomas Hardy wrote which novel about Tess Durbeyfield?

Answer: Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Bonus fact: The novel critiques social and moral conventions.

Hardy's novels are often set in the fictional region called what?

Answer: Wessex

Bonus fact: His Wessex is based on southwestern England.

After controversy over his later novels, Hardy focused increasingly on what form?

Answer: Poetry

Bonus fact: He considered himself primarily a poet in later life.

On what fictional heath is Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native set?

Answer: Egdon Heath

Bonus fact: The novel was published in 1878.

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