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'Two on a Tower' - One of Hardy's Forgettable Novels  
   

'Two on a Tower' - One of Hardy's Forgettable Novels

The Best and Worst of Thomas Hardy

March 30th 2020
Thomas Hardy is my favourite novelist and one of my four favourite poets (along with Shakespeare, Philip Larkin and W. B. Yeats). I have read almost everything Hardy ever wrote but have to admit he is very uneven. I would say that at least three of his novels are masterpieces: ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’, ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ and ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’. Three others[i ... read more
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Vietnamese Flag The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more
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