THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE

托马斯.哈代

BIOGRAPHYThomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one ofEngland's greatest andbest-loved writers. His novels are all set in a region ofsouthem England that he called Wessex. They are famous forhis descriptions of the countryside and the lives of poorcountry people in the nineteenth century.Jude the Obscure is the last of Hardy's major novels, whichalso. include Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridgeand Far From the Madding Crowd (Simply Stories, Level 3).AfterJude the Obscure, he concentrated on writing poetry.