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Hint: It’s all tied up with the country’s history with British royalty.
In Thomas Hardy’s novel The Woodlanders, the trees sing. Hardy’s exploration of the relationship between humans and trees resonates in an epoch of environmental catastrophe.
Thomas Hardy found horror in the Dorset of his childhood.
Moral prudishness pushed Thomas Hardy and George Eliot to develop more creative and thoughtful writing practices.
If you are tired of A Christmas Carol, why not try one of the few Hardy stories where all’s well that ends well.
Acutely aware of class inequality and social injustice, Hardy was also a notable advocate of access to Higher Education.
BBC One’s The Living and the Dead revels in the Victorians’ obsession with the supernatural and the limits of science.
Dicken’s great anti-hero has monopolised festive literature for too long. Here are the alternative takes on the season of goodwill that you have been missing.
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