![]() ![]() What's the deal? Well, Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure (1895) received such scathing reviews that he swore off the whole novel-writing business and decided to just go back to poetry for the rest of his life. But he pretty much stopped publishing novels and prose by the end of the nineteenth century. ![]() ![]() Hardy was born in 1840 and died in 1928 – so he lived to be crazy old. Whatever his motives for writing them, his novels are what most people remember him for, and his novels brought him fame (and notoriety) in his own lifetime. Instead, Hardy thought of himself as a poet who just wrote novels on the side to make some cash. Thomas Hardy actually didn't consider himself much of a novelist, even though he is now super famous for his novels. ![]()
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