
The Shape Of Things To Come
The TLS Podcast
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A Novel About Novelists
Emma's support of hardy's ambition to be a writer made her attractive to him at first. He was trying to write books which were not being accepted, and she had this absolute faith in his abilities. But the marriage turned her youthful enthusiasm for literature into a lifelong prison. And i think she often have felt that in choosing her, hardly have simply chosen to take literature to wife, after all. I've also got a tremendous weakness, or o a fondness, i should say, for novels about novelists.
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