Thomas Hardy Quotes
Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
Citations
Hardy, Thomas. Far from the Madding Crowd. Smith, Elder & Co., 1874.
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Thomas Hardy OM was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England.