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Thomas hardy story (1840) (1928)

He start his literary career by writing poetry but it could gain a little success he then turned to novels and by 1874 he was able to support himself by writing hardy’s firs novel the poor man and the lady finished by 1867 failed to find a publisher and hardy destroyed the manuscript so only parts of the novel remain he was encouraged to try again by his mentor and friend Victorian poet and novelist George Meredith. Desperate remedies 1871 and under the greenwood tree were published anonymously. In 1873 a pair of blue eyes a story drawing on hardy’s courtship of his first wife was published under his own name.