Thomas Hardy

Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband and a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized the friendship of aristocrats.

Paradoxul a condus viata lui Thomas Hardy. Nasterea sa a fost aproape moartea sa; a devenit unul dintre marii romancieri victorieni si s-a reinventat ca unul dintre cei mai mari poeti ai secolului al XX-lea; a fost un sot nefericit si un vaduv dezolat; a scris atacuri acerbe la adresa sistemului de clase englez, dar a pretuit prietenia aristocratilor.