Download or read book Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind written by Simon Gatrell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-06-18 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Hardy's account in fiction of the individual man or woman's relationship with various aspects of the encompassing world - with other individual men and women, with the aggregation known as society, with the natural and artificial environment and with the supernatural.