01/02/2018
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Thomas Hardy died in Dorchester, Dorset, England on this day in 1928 (aged 87).
“A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”
―from TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891)
One of Thomas Hardy’s most famous novels is the story of an innocent young woman victimized by the double standards of her day. Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Hardy’s early work, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina, has achieved classic stature.
