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 โ€œNovels of Character and Environment,โ€ in and around Dorchester (โ€˜Casterbridgeโ€™), near his boyhood home at Bockhampton on the outskirts of โ€˜Egdonโ€™ Heath. While both Anthony Trollope (181582) and George Eliot (1819โ€“80) employed rural locations inโ€ฆ