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From: The Sunday Herald
Date: 20061029
Author:Alan Taylor

THOMAS HARDY: THE TIME-TORN MAN

BY CLAIRE TOMALIN (VIKING, GBP25)

FEW great books have received such an initial withering reception as Jude The Obscure. To Thomas Hardy, then aged 55, it was like being booed off stage. "A titanically bad book, " wrote one critic; "a shameful nightmare, " offered another. Yet that was only part of the story. Even as they grimaced and howled, the critics seemed to appreciate that beneath what they saw as coarseness, vulgarity and indecency, were glimpses of Hardy's genius. And once the furore following publication died down, more sophisticated voices began to ...

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