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...destiny of Thomas Hardy, a quiet little man whose principal excitement consisted of a bicycle ride followed by afternoon tea, to remind his fellow Victorians of an England darker and madder than anything in literature since Lear roamed the heath. The novelist made contemporary by film (Tess) and television (The Mayor of Casterbridge) was born in 1840 in a remote Dorset village. There, farmers, shepherds and artisans lived in a kind of Elizabethan time warp. But something dour and reductive in this son of a stone mason drove him back beyond morris dances to a pagan Britain haunted by ancient...
...Fall-or, more likely, an Eve. The storms Hardy stages on his heath are nothing compared with the tempests of sexual passion that tear at the hearts of these lonely wanderers among the thorns: Bathsheba of Far from the Madding Crowd, Eustacia Vye of The Return of the Native, Tess of the d'Urbervilles...
...Hardy ever have his Tess firsthand. As a young architectural draftsman specializing in church restoration, he courted Emma Gilford, a solicitor's daughter. It proved to be a mismatch worthy of one of his own plots. "What very strange marriages literary men seem to make," Fanny, the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, remarked after meeting Emma. She might have said the same thing after meeting Florence Dugdale, Hardy's second wife, who suffered from chronic depression. Typing up poetry that addressed Emma as "woman much missed" did little to cheer up the second...
...Tess of the d' Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy...
...mean on men? Silly people. Let on consider. On the one hand you have Hitler, on the other Albert Schweitzer. Are people in books like this? People in books ought to be human beings. Let us consider human beings in books Consider the men in Tess of the D'Uhervilles, written by a man Alex D'Urbervile, a rake. Angel Clare, a total wimp Dogs Hardy hate men? Consider Dickens, a man, writing about men. Now those are men I would love to have in my living room Consider...