Thomas Hardy Quotes


...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.


Citations

Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891, p. 260.

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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
  • Born: June 2, 1840
  • Died: January 11, 1928
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Novelist

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.