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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy
English writer Thomas Hardy provoked readers with his 1895 tragic novel Jude the Obscure, a scathing attack on the institution of marriage and sexual repression in 19th-century England. In Hardy’s bleak world view, humans rarely win out against the forces of fate.
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