Download or read book The Pessimism of Thomas Hardy written by G. W. Sherman and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the social reasons for Thomas Hardy's consistent pessimism expressed in all his major works. The author contends that this came from the failure of bourgeois society to correct the anachronisms in the social machinery of the day.