Hardy painted by William Strang.1893 Despite this criticism,Hardy had becomea celebrity in English literature by the 1900s,with several highly successful novels behind him.Evenso,he felt disgust at the public receptionoftwo of his greatest works and gave up writing fiction altogether.Other novels written by Hardy include Two on a Tower,a romance story set in the world of astronomy.With some notable exceptions,for example Tess ofthe D'Urbervilles which was produceed the 1979 Polanskifilm Tess,and unlikethe novels of Charles Dickens and George Eliot,Hardy's novels do not begto be filmed or to be adapted for the stage.Some scholars have suggested that this is due to theabsence ofa flair in Hardy for theovertly dramatic.[citation needed V.Hardy's novels of character and environment Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset,a rural region of 10 southwestern England that was to become the focus of his fiction. The Wessex of Thomas Hardy's novels and poems In his Wessex novels,there is an apparent nostalgic touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive ruralHardy painted by William Strang, 1893 Despite this criticism, Hardy had become a celebrity in English literature by the 1900s, with several highly successful novels behind him. Evenso, he felt disgust at the public reception of two of his greatest works and gave up writing fiction altogether. Other novels written by Hardy include Two on a Tower, a romance story set in the world of astronomy. With some notable exceptions, for example Tess of the D'Urbervilles which was produceed the 1979 Polanski film Tess, and unlike the novels of Charles Dickens and George Eliot, Hardy's novels do not beg to be filmed or to be adapted for the stage. Some scholars have suggested that this is due to the absence of a flair in Hardy for the overtly dramatic.[citation needed V. Hardy’s novels of character and environment Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset, a rural region of southwestern England that was to become the focus of his fiction. The Wessex of Thomas Hardy’s novels and poems In his Wessex novels, there is an apparent nostalgic touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural 10’