What are the main characteristics of Thomas Hardy's best local-c

What are the main characteristics of Thomas Hardy's best local-colored works?
【正确答案】：His best local-colored works are known as“novels of character and environment." They are the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.The conflict between the old and the modern becomes more intense in his last two novels.In him we see the influence from both the past and the modern.