Hardy (1840 - 1928) was a prolific English author whose novels and poems are an important part of English literature. This novel looks at the pitfalls of romantic illusion and explores the damage done when a young woman, Eustacia Vye, turns her back on her current lover and marries Clym Yeobright, who has been abroad to Paris, in the expectation that he will enable her to escape from her dull life in Wessex.
