“You calculated how to be uncalculating, and are natural by art!”
Thomas Hardy book The Hand of Ethelberta
The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), ch. 20
Quotes from bookThe Hand of Ethelberta
The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1876. It was written, in serial form, for the Cornhill Magazine, which was edited by Leslie Stephen, a friend and mentor of Hardy's. Unlike the majority of Hardy's fiction, the novel is a comedy, with both humour and a happy ending for the major characters and no suicides or tragic deaths. The late nineteenth century novelist George Gissing, who knew Hardy, considered it 'surely old Hardy's poorest book'.
“Work hard and be poor, do nothing and get more.”
Thomas Hardy book The Hand of Ethelberta
The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), ch. 1
“Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.”
Thomas Hardy book The Hand of Ethelberta
The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), ch. 2
