Thomas Hardy as a Novelist
Thomas Hardy as a Novelist As with the majority of his earlier novels, poetry, and short stories, Hardy set his โNovels of Character and Environment,โ in and around Dorchester (โCasterbridgeโ), near his boyhood home at Bockhampton on the outskirts of โEgdonโ Heath. While both Anthony Trollope (181582) and George Eliot (1819โ80) employed rural locations inโฆ