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    A Group of Noble Dames
    A Group of Noble Dames
    A Group of Noble Dames
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    A Group of Noble Dames

    By Thomas Hardy

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    A collection of ten short stories by Thomas Hardy, many of them set in his famous fictional county of Wessex.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAUK Classics
    Release dateJun 15, 2012
    ISBN9781781663486
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    Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.

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