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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Buildings and structures in Dorchester, Culture in Dorchester, Education in Dorchester, Geography of Dorchester, History of Dorchester, People from Dorchester, Dorset, Sport in Dorchester, Thomas Hardy, Eldridge Pope, Kyle Critchell, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Dorchester Town F.C., Maurice Evans, Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet, Harold Nelson, John White, Dorset County Hospital, Tom Roberts, Poundbury, Geoffrey Hutchings, Mark Todd, Edgar Amphlett, Bloody Assizes, Francis Gillingham, Tim Heald, David West, Paul Hillier, T. F. Powys, Hayley Yelling, Llewelyn Powys, Avenue Stadium, Henry Benyon, Roman Town House, Dorchester, James Herbert Benyon, Andy Best, Max Gate, Dorchester Hospital, Dorset County Museum, Stinsford, The Keep Military Museum, Dorset Teddy Bear Museum, The Dinosaur Museum, William Ewart Hiscock, Dorchester Castle, Charminster, Dorchester United F.C., Dorset History Centre, Fordington, Dorset. Excerpt: Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well regarded as his no...
