When my husband show me with the dictionary in one hand and the book in the other, asked me why I was bothering myself with that book, if it was so difficult to read. "Because, it's so good, it's worth it!" was my answer.I read it decades ago and I admit I didn't like it; I found it gloomy and depre...
[These notes were made in 1983:]. Somehow a much lighter book in tone than Tess, tho' it has its share of tragedy at the end. There's something curious going on with Hardy - insofar as he conceives of an "upper" or nobler class at all, he seems nearly always to have a representative of it reduced t...
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