Thomas Hardy's Wessex
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title:
Thomas Hardy's Wessex
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Thomas Hardy's Wessex is the fictional literary landscape created by the English author Thomas Hardy as the setting for his major novels, located in the south and southwest of England. Hardy named the area "Wessex" after the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom that existed in this part of that country prior to the unification of England by Æthelstan. Although the places that appear in his novels actually exist, in many cases he gave the place a fictional name. For example, Hardy's home town of Dorchest
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Fictional setting for Hardy's novels
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy%27s_Wessex
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2024-04-26T15:40:45Z
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