Buchara state university m. Bakoeva, E. Muratova, M. Ochilova english literature

Hardy’s home and the surrounding districts played an important

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role in his literary career. The region was agricultural, and there 
were monuments of the past, that is Saxon and Roman ruins and 
the great boulders of Stonehenge, which reminded of the prehis­
toric times, before the Norman invasion of 1066
First, Hardy aimed his fiction at serial publication in maga­
zines, where it would most quickly pay the bills. Not forgetting 
an earlier dream, he resolved to keep his tales “as near to poetry 
in their subject as the conditions would allow.” The emotional 
power of Hardy’s fiction disturbed readers from the start. His 
first success, “Far from the Madding Crowd” (1874). was fol­
lowed by “The Return o f the Native” (1878), “The Mayor of 
Casterbridge”(1885), and “Tess of the D’Urber/illes” (1891). 
Hardy wrote about the Dorset country-side he knew well and 
called it Wessex (the name o f the Anglo-Saxon kingdom once 
located there). He wrote about agrarian working peopic, milk­
maids, stonecutters, and shepherds. Hardy's rejection o f middle- 
class moral values disturbed and shocked some readers, but as 
time passed, his novels gained in popularity and prestige. An 
architect by profession, he gave to his novels a design that was 
architectural, employing each circumstance in the narrative to 
one accumulated effect. The final impression was cne of a malign. 
It was fate, functioning in men’s lives, corrupting their possibili­
ties of happiness, and beckoning them towards tragedy. While he 
saw life thus as cruel and purposeless, he did not remain a de­
tached spectator. He has pity for the puppets o f Destiny, and it is