Like Charles Dickens and London, or the Brontës and Yorkshire, Thomas Hardy is one of those authors who is indelibly associated with a place: Wessex, the area of south-west England he memorialized in his novels. Hardy remains one of the best-loved authors in English literature. His elegiac treatment of country life has become woven into English history, despite his frank approach to some topics which shocked readers at the time and can still do …
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