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... Hardy's characters , for instance , are simple enough ; there is nothing particularly subtle about Gabriel Oak , Bathsheba Everdene , and Ser- geant Troy , but the way we are made to see them depends not only on Hardy's rendering of ...
... Hardy's characters , for instance , are simple enough ; there is nothing particularly subtle about Gabriel Oak , Bathsheba Everdene , and Ser- geant Troy , but the way we are made to see them depends not only on Hardy's rendering of ...
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... Hardy's mind and art it is probably The Return of the Native , his sixth book , published in 1878. A tragic love ... Hardy's idealists , the first of what have been called his " prig heroes , " a man conscious all the time of what Hardy ...
... Hardy's mind and art it is probably The Return of the Native , his sixth book , published in 1878. A tragic love ... Hardy's idealists , the first of what have been called his " prig heroes , " a man conscious all the time of what Hardy ...
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... Hardy's other novels and gives them their sense of timelessness . One can't say that design , as opposed to plot ... Hardy's view of the tragic situation of man , Jude suffers artistically from its explicitness . Nevertheless , Jude is a ...
... Hardy's other novels and gives them their sense of timelessness . One can't say that design , as opposed to plot ... Hardy's view of the tragic situation of man , Jude suffers artistically from its explicitness . Nevertheless , Jude is a ...
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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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