This novel has the accolade of being Hardy’s final novel. The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and the Well-beloved (Penguin Classics) (1897). Some of the names here are unbeatable: Dick Dewy and Fancy Day, for instance, for the romantic leads.ĩ. The book introduces a common trope seen in Hardy’s fiction: the love triangle (sometimes, in later novels, it would prove more of a rhombus) whereby several men are trying to win the heart of the same woman. It didn’t fare particularly well, so Hardy took the title of his next book from a song sung in Shakespeare’s As You Like It and wrote about a rural community, centred on the village choir, in an attempt to appeal to the city-dwelling London market. His first, Desperate Remedies (1871), was an example of sensation fiction (a genre more usually identified with Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins). Hardy adopted an overtly pastoral title for this, his second published novel. Under the Greenwood Tree (Oxford World’s Classics) (1872).
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