id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4574 Thomas Hardy - Wikipedia .html text/html 8677 1009 77 A plot device popularised by Charles Dickens, the term "cliffhanger" is considered to have originated with the serialised version of A Pair of Blue Eyes (published in Tinsley's Magazine between September 1872 and July 1873) in which Henry Knight, one of the protagonists, is left literally hanging off a cliff.[28][29] Elements of Hardy's fiction reflect the influence of the commercially successful sensation fiction of the 1860s, particularly the legal complications in novels such as Desperate Remedies (1871), Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) and Two on a Tower (1882).[30] Walsh, Lauren (2005), "Introduction", The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy (print), Classics, New York: Barnes & Noble. E. Thomas Hardy: His Life and Work. "Thomas Hardy in Our Time." New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, London: Macmillan, 1997. Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Hardy, Thomas. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4574.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4574.txt