The Hand of Ethelberta

Thomas Hardy

Gill's going through the second Thomas Hardy phase of her life. This book is supposedly a comedy but she could detect no real laughs in it. The book is obsessed with class, Ethelberta rises through the social classes, desperately trying to keep her lowly background secret. Quite an easy read and without much of the depressing stuff that's often in Hardy (maybe this is what qualifies it as a comedy).
Gill 23/11/03

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