Thomas Hardy: Quick Facts

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Born	June 2, 1840 • England
Died	January 11, 1928 (aged 87) • Dorchester • England
Notable Works	“A Changed Man” • “A Pair of Blue Eyes” • “Desperate Remedies” • “Far from the Madding Crowd” • “A Group of Noble Dames” • “Jude the Obscure” • “Life’s Little Ironies” • “Poems of the Past and the Present” • “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” • “The Dynasts” • “The Hand of Ethelberta” • “The Mayor of Casterbridge” • “The Poor Man and the Lady” • “The Return of the Native” • “The Well-Beloved” • “The Woodlanders” • “Under the Greenwood Tree” • “Wessex Poems” • “Wessex Tales”