Thomas Hardy - which is your favourite novel?

[MiddleAgeMiddleEngland]

Just that, really. I'm aiming to re-read them all over the next year or so, can't decide which I love best, possibly The Woodlanders or Far From The Madding Crowd.

Definitely Return of the Native. I studied it at a level many many decades ago and I still remember many of the quotes.

Eustasia Vye is a cracking heroine, so much more interesting than poor old Tess. I loved his descriptions of her -

"Her presence brought memories of such things as Bourbon roses, rubies, and tropical midnight"

Sadly not something anyone has ever been able to say of me