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Thomas Hardy (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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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]
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Far from the Madding Crowd (Masterplots Classics) -
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Far from the Madding Crowd (Magill Book Reviews) -
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In Tenebris (Poetry) -
Jude the Obscure (Masterplots Classics) -
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Jude the Obscure (Literary Places) -
Jude the Obscure (Magill Book Reviews) -
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Neutral Tones (Poetry) -
Poetry of Hardy, The (Masterplots Classics) -
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Return of the Native, The (Character Profiles) -
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Masterplots Classics) -
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Censorship) -
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Character Profiles) -
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Literary Places) -
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Magill Book Reviews) -
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Under the Greenwood Tree (Masterplots Classics) -
Under the Greenwood Tree (Character Profiles) -
Under the Greenwood Tree (Literary Places) -
Woodlanders, The (Masterplots Classics) -
Woodlanders, The (Character Profiles) -
Woodlanders, The (Literary Places) -
Acting Styles (Topical Overview--Drama) -
Dramatic Genres (Topical Overview--Drama) -
Staging and Production (Topical Overview--Drama) -
Bildungsroman, The (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
Naturalistic Long Fiction (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
Origins and Development of the Novel, 1890-1980 (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
Origins and Development of the Novel, 1740-1890 (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
English and American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
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Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
