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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 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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... Hardy . ” His faults are glaring enough . His plots creak . His villains have stepped off the boards of a barnstorming company peddling melodrama . His prose is often clumsy to the point of uncouthness . Yet the true index of Hardy's ...
... Hardy . ” His faults are glaring enough . His plots creak . His villains have stepped off the boards of a barnstorming company peddling melodrama . His prose is often clumsy to the point of uncouthness . Yet the true index of Hardy's ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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