.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE ..MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - MID / THICK SOFT COVER EDITION homas Hardy OM was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England.The Selected Works of Thomas Hardy includes many of the esteemed author?s best-known works: Far From the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure.