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In this novel Hardy carried his life long complaint about the cruelty of existence into its last phase. First he had railed against the cosmos, then denounced the avoidable frailties of men, now he began to quarrel with society. When Grace Melbury, a country girl rendered unfit for either simple or sophisticated life by the fashionable education lavished upon her by an ambitious parent, ponders her disastrous and indissoluble marriage to the philandering dilettante Fitzpiers, she neither curses fate nor bewails the consequence of her lust and ambition. Instead, she asks herself calmly whether she is really joined in marriage by God or by Act of Parliament.
In this novel Hardy carried his life long complaint about the cruelty of existence into its last phase. First he had railed against the cosmos, then denounced the avoidable frailties of men, now he began to quarrel with society. When Grace Melbury, a country girl rendered unfit for either simple ...
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