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    A Changed Man (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By Thomas Hardy

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    In 1913, Thomas Hardy published this collection of "a dozen minor novels" drawn from his works in magazines and newspapers.  The collection showcases Hardy's mastery of naturalism, irony, and the supernatural, and includes, in addition to the title story, "The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid," one of his most popular tales.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateFeb 8, 2011
    ISBN9781411435322
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    Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840, the eldest of four children. At the age of sixteen he became an apprentice architect. With remarkable self discipline he developed his classical education by studying between the hours of four and eight in the morning. With encouragement from Horace Moule of Queens' College Cambridge, he began to write fiction. His first published novel was Desperate Remedies in 1871. Thus began a series of increasingly dark novels all set within the rural landscape of his native Dorset, called Wessex in the novels. Such was the success of his early novels, including A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) and Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), that he gave up his work as an architect to concentrate on his writing. However he had difficulty in getting Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1889) published and was forced to make changes in order for it to be judged suitable for family readers. This coupled with the stormy reaction to the negative tone of Jude the Obscure (1894) prompted Hardy to abandon novel writing altogether. He concentrated mainly on poetry in his latter years. He died in January 1928 and was buried in Westminster Abbey; but his heart, in a separate casket, was buried in Stinsford, Dorset.

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      Although more famous for his novels, Thomas Hardy was also an adept writer of short stories. He’s just as capable of mixing comedy with tragedy and at foreshadowing events in the subtlest of ways in this more restricted format.He’ll often mention something that seems so trivial that you wonder how it’s significant to the story and why include it, only for that “Ah!” moment to hit you later on when realisation dawns.The stories on the whole don’t make a classic collection, but there are some entertaining pieces in the mix. “The Waiting Supper” is a particularly well-crafted tale