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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the same on both sides. - Thomas Hardy Attribution: Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), British novelist, poet. Far from the Madding Crowd, ch. XX (1874).

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Thomas Hardy

Titles by Thomas Hardy:

• Far from the Madding Crowd
• Jude the Obscure
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
• The Darkling Thrush
• The Mayor of Casterbridge
• The Return of the Native

Salem on History:

• Thomas Hardy

Encyclopedia:

• Hardy, Thomas (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Hardy, Thomas (Oxford Dictionary of World History)

Salem on Literature:

• Thomas Hardy (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• Thomas Hardy (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Thomas Hardy (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Thomas Hardy (Critical Survey of Drama)
• Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
• Thomas Hardy (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• Thomas Hardy (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

Literary Criticism:

• Hardy, Thomas (Short Story Criticism)
• Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Hardy, Thomas (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Thomas Hardy dies
• Thomas Hardy publishes Jude the Obscure
• Thomas Hardy publishes Tess of the d'Urbervilles
• Thomas Hardy publishes The Mayor of Casterbridge
• Thomas Hardy publishes The Return of the Native
• Thomas Hardy publishes Far from the Madding Crowd
• Thomas Hardy is born