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... Hardy found in the science and philosophy of his day re- inforced the findings of his temperament and of his observations of a largely traditional way of life ; and his greatness is due to this marriage between his philosophic pessimism ...
... Hardy found in the science and philosophy of his day re- inforced the findings of his temperament and of his observations of a largely traditional way of life ; and his greatness is due to this marriage between his philosophic pessimism ...
Page 240
... Hardy , as though not wholly convinced himself , does not know where to stop . He spoils his case by overstatement ... Hardy's worst failure here is certainly ' Father Time's ' killing of Sue's children in Jude , and his suicide : ' Done ...
... Hardy , as though not wholly convinced himself , does not know where to stop . He spoils his case by overstatement ... Hardy's worst failure here is certainly ' Father Time's ' killing of Sue's children in Jude , and his suicide : ' Done ...
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... Hardy is always weakest , his manipulation of the plot . Simply because Hardy is working much more nearly at the level of realism in Jude , one might say at Gissing's level , improbabilities be- come increasingly serious . The most ...
... Hardy is always weakest , his manipulation of the plot . Simply because Hardy is working much more nearly at the level of realism in Jude , one might say at Gissing's level , improbabilities be- come increasingly serious . The most ...
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