THE THOMAS HARDY ASSOCIATION
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DIRECTOR: ROBERT SCHWEIK
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THOMAS HARDY--PAPERS
DESCRIPTION:
Address: http://www.15000papers.com
Master: Master: Unidentified (papers@15000papers.com)
Date: 07/01/04
A site maintained by Paper Store Enterprises, Inc., this is but one example of the many sites selling term papers about Hardy to students. This one claims to have over 15,000 "model" papers, research reports, and essays for sale at $4.95 per page, and it offers, too, to write papers on request. A search for "Hardy" yielded numerous papers on such topics as "Darwinism in Hardy's 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles,'" "Gender and Power in Dickens and Hardy," and "Thomas Hardy: Marriage and the Plight of Women in Three Novels," some with and some without sources.
For another source for such papers, see http://www.papers123.com/black.htm, which offers a similar number of papers on Hardy for sale.
To get some sense of the enormous range of sites offering such papers on Hardy and other writers, click here or here.
COMMENT:
Obviously, such papers are commonly purchased by students with the intent of passing them off as their original work. The papers vary greatly in size and sophistication, and some, perhaps many, may themselves be cribbed from other sources. The paper on "Darwinism in Hardy's 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles,'" for example, is listed as having no citations, and the quality of an essay on Hardy's The Return of the Native may be guessed from this sentence in its description: "Based on a community called Egdon Heath, the story delves in the subconscious of the townspeople as they are given to exist day to day in their silent torment."