The Sayings of Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was equally eminent as a novelist and a poet and thus holds a unique place in English literature. Both a great romantic and a profound pessimist, he revealed his tragic view of human life in works of total, and sometimes devastating, emotional honesty. The sayings in this collection reveal the full range of the thoughts and feelings of this very human and very humane figure, who will always be one of our best-loved writers.