1894. Hardy, English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, whose powerfully delineated characters, portrayed in his native Dorset, struggled helplessly against their passions and external circumstances. Contents: The Son's Veto; For Conscience' Sake; A Tragedy of Two Ambitions; On the Western Circuit; To Please His Wife; The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion; The Fiddler of the Reels; A Tradition of 1804; and A Few Crusted Characters. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.