Paper Title
Thomas Hardy’s Late-Victorian Novels: The Picture Of The Epoch

Abstract
The paper deals with the novels of Thomas Hardy written in the Late Victorian period and united as a cycle of Wessex novels. The paper attempts to reveal the peculiarities of new trends in British literature in the last three decades of the XIX century, the characteristic features of the main personages, as well as the factors that influenced the literary process known as Late-Victorian period. Keywords: Late-Victorian novel, Thomas Hardy, Wessex novels