Thomas Hardy

by Lance St. John Butler and Butler Lance St John

This study of Thomas Hardy provides a substantial introduction to his six major novels and his poems. It deals more briefly with the minor fiction. Hardy now seems a more important novelist and poet than at any previous time. This is only partly due to his capabilities as a social historian or provincial chronicler. Far more important is his faithful exploration of the daily trials and tragedies of men and women as feeling beings. Man and woman in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521292719
• ISBN13: 9780521292719
• Release Date: February 1978
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"