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... Hardy's characters , for instance , are simple enough ; there is nothing particularly subtle about Gabriel Oak , Bathsheba Everdene , and Sergeant Troy ; but the way we are made to see them depends not only on Hardy's rendering of them ...
... Hardy's characters , for instance , are simple enough ; there is nothing particularly subtle about Gabriel Oak , Bathsheba Everdene , and Sergeant Troy ; but the way we are made to see them depends not only on Hardy's rendering of them ...
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... Hardy , as a man of his time and place , had no completely adequate myth through which his view of the nature of things could be bodied forth . But the greatness of conception , the sense of cosmic scope behind the action , put Hardy's ...
... Hardy , as a man of his time and place , had no completely adequate myth through which his view of the nature of things could be bodied forth . But the greatness of conception , the sense of cosmic scope behind the action , put Hardy's ...
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... Hardy . She is the opposite of Eustacia Vye , Bathsheba Everdene , and Tess not merely in the fact that she is an intellectual . But she is much more than Hardy's version of the ' New Woman ' , and she utterly transcends Gissing's ...
... Hardy . She is the opposite of Eustacia Vye , Bathsheba Everdene , and Tess not merely in the fact that she is an intellectual . But she is much more than Hardy's version of the ' New Woman ' , and she utterly transcends Gissing's ...
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