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Of his rather unromantic outlook on life, hardy once said, pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. Hardy set his poignant love story, fellow townsmen, here, renaming it port bredy, with final scenes in the 500yearold bull hotel. Thomas hardy was born in higher brockhampton, dorset, england, to thomas and jemima hardy, the eldest of four children. Looking to sell asap from pet free and non smoking. The selected works of thomas hardy 18 volumes hardy wrote about his native wessex and the people he knew and understood shepherds, tenant farmers and country squires. He left school at sixteen to work as an apprentice for an architect who specialized in church restoration. Thomas hardy hardy, thomas, 18401928 the online books. We offer this tour in the spring, summer and autumn. Thomas hardy om 2 june 1840 11 january 1928 was an english novelist and poet.
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