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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19970202
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Not all novelists are gifted storytellers -- including some who have towering reputations. Thomas Hardy, for example, took his lumps in a widely read study of the craft of fiction. "Hardy seems to me essentially a poet," wrote the author of this volume, "who conceives of his novels from an enormous height. They are to be tragedies or tragi-comedies; they are to give out the sound of hammer strokes as they proceed . . . His characters are involved in various snares, they are finally bound hand and foot, there is ceaseless emphasis on fate, and yet, for all the sacrifices made to it, we ...

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