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Thaden Willa Cather by Linda De Roche  \nJames Fenimore Cooper by Craig White Stephen Crane by Paul M. Sorrentino Charles Dickens by Ruth Glancy  \nF. Scott Fitzgerald by Linda C. Pelzer  \nNathaniel Hawthorne by Melissa McFarland Pennell Ernest Hemingway by Lisa Tyler  \nZora Neale Hurston by Josie P. Campbell Herman Melville by Sharon Talley Arthur Miller by Susan C. W. Abbotson George Orwell by Mitzi M. Brunsdale Edgar Allan Poe by Tony Magistrale John Steinbeck by Cynthia Burkhead Mark Twain by David E. E. Sloane  \nEdith Wharton by Melissa McFarland Pennell Elie Wiesel by Sanford Sternlicht Tennessee Williams by Nancy M. Tischler Richard Wright by Robert Felgar  \nStudent Companion to  \nThomas Hardy  \nRosemarie Morgan  \nStudent Companions to Classic Writers  \nGREENWOOD PRESS  \nWestport, Connecticut • London  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nMorgan, Rosemarie.  \nStudent companion to Thomas Hardy / Rosemarie Morgan.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Student companions to classic writers, ISSN 1522–7979) Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0–313–33396–3 (alk. paper)  \n1. Hardy, Thomas, 1840–1928—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Hardy, Thomas, 1840–1928—Examinations—Study guides. I. Title.  \nPR4754.M58 2007  \n823'.8—dc22 2006031758  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.  \nCopyright © 2007 by Rosemarie Morgan All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher.  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006031758  \nISBN: 0–313–33396–3  \nISSN: 1522–7979 First published in 2007  \nGreenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.  \n[www.greenwood.com](www.greenwood.com)  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nThe paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48–1984).  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nContents  \nSeries Foreword vii  \nPreface ix  \n1 The Life of Thomas Hardy 1  \n2 Hardy’s Career and Contribution to World Literature 15  \n3 Far From the Madding Crowd (1874) 35  \n4 The Return of the Native (1878) 59  \n5 Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) 85  \n6 Jude the Obscure (1895) 113  \n7 The Poetry—An Overview 141  \n8 Afterword: Hardy’s Last Novel 193  \nAppendix: The Evolution of Wessex 197  \nBibliography 201  \nIndex 217  \nSeries Foreword  \nThis series has been designed to meet the needs of students and general readers for accessible literary criticism on the American and world writers most frequently studied and read in the secondary school, community college, and four-year college classrooms. Unlike other works of literary criticism that are written for the specialist and graduate student, or that feature a variety of reprinted scholarly essays on sometimes obscure aspects of the writer’s work, the Student Companions to Classic Writers series is carefully crafted to examine each writer’s major works fully and in a systematic way, at the level of the nonspecialist and general reader. The objective is to enable the reader to gain a deeper understanding of the work and to apply critical thinking skills to the act of reading. The proven format for the volumes in this series was developed by an advisory board of teachers and librarians for a successful series published by Greenwood Press, Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers. Responding to their request for easy-to-use and yet challenging literary criticism for students and adult library patrons, Greenwood Press developed a systematic format that is not intimidating but helps the reader to develop the ability to analyze literature.  \nHow does this work? 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