Showing posts with label Thomas Hardy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Hardy. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy


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Read, reviewed, and released in May, 2011

This book has some very unexpected plot twists that hold the interest. It begins with a man selling his wife and infant daughter at a fair. She finds him years later, and he remarries her, although there are other complications in his life. She, too, is keeping a significant secret from him. It is a morality tale, describing the rise and fall of a man who cannot escape his inherent character.

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy



Read, reviewed and released in July, 2006

Great classic book, fulfilling on so many levels. I got exasperated at Tess for some of the short-sighted decisions she made, but she lived in her time, not my time, and she did the best she could. I was angriest at her parents, and at Alec and Angel. Everyone "did her wrong."