I read a little Hardy when I was at university but after reading Jude the Obscure and being completely depressed, I gave him up. I like real life, but he’s always so, well, downbeat. Now with the release of Far From the Madding Crowd and having seen the stylish BBC adaptation of Tess of the D’Urberv...
If Thomas Hardy's Wessex region was a real place the British government would probably have to nuke it as nothing but misery seems to go on there, as recounted in [b: Tess of the d'Urbervilles|32261|Tess of the D'Urbervilles|Thomas Hardy|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358921541s/32261.jpg|3331021], ...
You know the feeling that is always associated with Greek tragedies or Eastern apocryphal stories: that Workings of Fate are above men's will. The kind of stories where someone hears a prophecy about the person who would ruin or kill him and starts a great activity trying to evade his fate, only to ...
Part of a classics challenge, along with the Scarlet Pimpernel. So far, my favorite Hardy.
I was surprised how much I liked this book. Ok, it's a classic, the font is tiny, and it looked like a long hard read. The story is about Mr. Henchard, who in a drunken state, sells his wife and infant daughter. Twenty years later, the wife and daughter decide to look for him and discover that he...
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