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Thomas Hardy was born in a cottage in Higher Bockhampton, near Dorchester, on 2 June 1840. He was educated locally and at sixteen was articled to a Dorchester architect, John Hicks. In 1862 he moved to London and found employment with another architect, Arthur Blomfield. He now began to write poetry and published an essay. By 1867 he had returned to Dorset to work as Hicks's assistant and began his first (unpublished) novel, The Poor Man and the Lady. On an architectural visit to St Juliot in Cornwall in 1870 he met his first wife, Emma Gifford. Before their marriage in 1874 he had published four novels and was earning his living as a writer. More novels followed and in 1878 the Hardys moved from Dorset to the London literary scene. But in 1885, after building his house at Max Gate near Dorchester, Hardy again returned to Dorset. He then produced most of his major novels: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), The Woodlanders (1887), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved (1892) and Jude the Obscure (1895). Amidst the controversy caused by Jude the Obscure, he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life. In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems and his epic drama in verse, The Dynasts. After a long and bitter estrangement, Emma Hardy died at Max Gate in 1912. Paradoxically, the event triggered some of Hardy's finest love poetry. In 1914, however, he married Florence Dugdale, a close friend for several years. In 1910 he had been awarded the Order of Merit and was recognized, even revered, as the major literary figure of the time. He died on 11 January 1928. His ashes were buried in Westminster Abbey and his heart at Stinsford in Dorset. Photo by Bain News Service, publisher [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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The British Classics Collection - Volume One: 20+ Stories from Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, George Orwell, Mary Shelly, & More

Great Expectations, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Wuthering Heights, To the Lighthouse, 1984, & More

By: George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Joanne Froggatt, Jonathan Keeble, Adjoa Andoh, Emma Gregory, Rachel Atkins, Lucy Scott, full cast

Length: 224 hrs and 12 mins

Release date: 06-12-24

Language: English

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Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker

Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins

Release date: 19-02-09

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 1,078 ratings
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The Return of the Native

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Alan Rickman

Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins

Release date: 27-05-09

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 1,112 ratings
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Peter Firth

Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins

Release date: 09-09-08

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 1,295 ratings
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Jude The Obscure

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Stephen Thorne

Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins

Release date: 19-02-09

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 395 ratings
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The Mayor of Casterbridge

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Tony Britton

Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins

Release date: 05-05-09

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 646 ratings
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The Woodlanders

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Samuel West

Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins

Release date: 14-08-07

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 673 ratings
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins

Release date: 28-07-08

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
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Under the Greenwood Tree

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Robert Hardy

Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins

Release date: 02-09-08

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
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Short Stories: The Vintage Collection

By: Saki, Thomas Hardy, Kate Chopin, James Thurber, P. G. Wodehouse, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Martin Jarvis, Hugh Laurie, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Rupert Degas

Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins

Release date: 02-03-10

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
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Two on a Tower

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Michael Kitchen

Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins

Release date: 25-09-07

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
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A Pair of Blue Eyes

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Peter Wickham

Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins

Release date: 23-07-09

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
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The Thomas Hardy Collection: Six Novels

Far From the Madding Crowd; Tess of the D'Urbevilles; The Return of the Native; Jude the Obscure; The Woodlanders; The Mayor of Casterbridge

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Matt Bates, Dawn Murphy

Length: 90 hrs and 29 mins

Release date: 05-09-24

Language: English

5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
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Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Anton Lesser

Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins

Release date: 07-09-10

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 220 ratings
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The Thomas Hardy BBC Radio Drama Collection

10 Full-Cast Dramatisations Including Tess of the d’Urbervilles & Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: full cast, Toby Jones, Shaun Dooley, Adam Godley, Faye Marsay, Rebecca Humphries, David Calder, Emma Fielding, Olivia Poulet, Callum Scott Howells, Katy Sobey, Sacha Dhawan, Alex Tregear, Patrick Kennedy, Ruth Wilson

Length: 20 hrs and 51 mins

Release date: 24-11-22

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
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The Trumpet-Major

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Nicholas Rowe

Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins

Release date: 07-12-16

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
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Classic Romance

By: Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Jules Verne, William Blake, Thomas Hardy, Gustave Flaubert, Emily Brontë, J. M. Barrie

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins

Release date: 05-10-11

Language: English

5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Anne-Marie Duff

Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins

Release date: 09-04-20

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
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Under the Greenwood Tree

The Mellstock Choir - A Rural Painting of the Dutch School

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Jamie Parker

Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins

Release date: 01-10-14

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
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Desperate Remedies

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins

Release date: 17-11-17

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
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