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This major new reading of the novels of Thomas Hardy by leading critic George Levine disentangles the author's often elaborately distanced prose from his beautiful poetic and precise renderings of the natural world. Clear, direct and minimally academic in his own writing, Levine provides an overview and Hardy's entire fictional canon, with extensive discussions of his early and late novels including his last, The Well-Beloved. In so doing Levine draws...