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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 chief weakness in plot arises from his view of causality . He is intent to show that the stars in their courses fight against the aspiring , the man or woman who would rise above the common lot through greatness of spirit , of ...
... Hardy's chief weakness in plot arises from his view of causality . He is intent to show that the stars in their courses fight against the aspiring , the man or woman who would rise above the common lot through greatness of spirit , of ...
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A Short Critical History Walter Allen. 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 ...
A Short Critical History Walter Allen. 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 ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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