Language: en
Published in: 1895
Subject(s): Novels
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org
Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70.
Hardy's masterpiece traces a poor stonemason's ill-fated romance with his free-spirited cousin. No Victorian institution is spared — marriage, religion, education — and the outrage following publication led the embittered author to renounce fiction. Modern critics hail this novel as a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought.
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on Oct 08, 2009 at 03:04
This book is a pretty good read. If I had to summarize it in one word, I'd choose "disillusionment." Certainly, that's a topic as relevant today as it was when the book was written.