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
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