Thomas Hardy (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
Other Literary Forms
In addition to his short stories, Thomas Hardy is best known for two distinct literary careers:
first as a novelist, author of such classic works as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
and Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891); then, following the hostile reaction to
Jude the Obscure in 1895, as a poet, especially for his epic verse drama about the
Napoleonic Wars, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars (pb. 1903, 1906, 1908,
1910, verse drama; pr. 1914; abridged by [The entire page is 4320 words long]

