Must confess. In my late teens, I went on a Thomas Hardy binge. British lit wasn’t new to me, but something about Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Far From the Madding Crowd just hit my tragic drama queen teen heart. Read everyone I could get my hands on, and in those days, there was a fair bit to be found, in school libraries and even public ones. Inevitably the protagonist (and it was usually a heroine) came to a sad end, and I was there […]
Much Tragic. So Drama.
The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy