... Magazine, in November 1872. Stephen had inquired about the possibility of a serialized story for the magazine, and Hardy replied that he had in mind "a pastoral tale which I thought of calling "Far from the Madding Crowd," in which the chief characters would be a woman-farmer, a shepherd, and a sergeant in the Dragoon Guards." Hardy began the novel during the spring of 1873, and its serialization in ... of the completed work, but for the present circumstances lead me to wish merely to be considered a good hand at a serial" (Life and Work, 102). With the success of Far from the Madding C...

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... Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d"Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure The novels of Thomas Hardy are intricate and complicated works whose plots seem to be completely planned before the first word is ever actually formed on paper. Though I have no proof of Hardy's method of writing, it is clear that he focuses more on plot development than characterization in the novels Far From ... the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d"Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. The advantages of this can be easily seen in the clever ... doing this, the characters are condemned to a literary predestination. Hardy...

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Thomas Hardy was born in a village near Dorchester, Dorset, in 1840. He trained as an Architect and pursued this to 1874 when he wrote his novel Far From The Madding Crowd which was successful and allowed hardy to devote himself to writing he continued writing novels till 1895 when he gave up fiction as he latest novel Jude The Obscure was ... a style associated with pre-twentieth century fiction. E.g. edifice, hereunder and juxtaposed. The language used is emotive and figurative. The story is told by an omniscient author who tells the story from all points. The story is told using long inte...

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