I have spent the last thirty five years convinced that I do not like Thomas Hardy. I know how it happened. Reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles when I was in high school and again at university made a lasting - and a negative - impression on me. Admittedly, I went on to read Jude the Obscure and Far fr...
Read by Nadia May. Unabridged. Workaday mp3publishers blurb - Set in Egdon Heath, a wild tract of country in the southwest of England, this is a masterpiece of dramatic tension. Clym Yeobright, a diamond merchant in Paris, returns to his home in Egdon, where he falls passionately in love with the se...
Hardy is one of my favorite authors. His prose is beautiful, and he explores many dichotomies in everyday life. Pay special attention to the interaction between Eugenia and her environment.
Hardy is the emo king. Life is short, nasty, and brutish, filled with back-breaking labor, and attempts at love will only end in disaster. I revere him, but if I start talking about re-reading, it's a safe bet that I need a change in meds.
[These notes were made in 1983:]. Another Hardy I enjoyed wholeheartedly! (This could become a habit). Here the "nobleman beneath his station" is really out of place - a sort of alien creature, red from top to toe (a seller of red sheep-marking). But this time, if Hardy's protestations are to be ...
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