La Bien Amada - Thomas Hardy

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Résumé :
Una persona muy distinta de los habituales transe?ntes de la localidad escalaba el escarpado camino que conduce a trav?s del pueblecillo costero llamado Street of Wells, y forma un pasillo en aquel Gibraltar de Wessex, la singular pen?nsula, un tiempo isla y todav?a as? denominada, que se adelanta como una cabeza de p?jaro en el canal ingl?s. Est? enlazada con tierra firme por un largo y angosto istmo de guijarros ?arrojados por la furia del mar? y sin igual en su clase en Europa. El caminante era lo que su aspecto indicaba: un joven de Londres, de cualquier ciudad del continente europeo. Nadie pod?a pensar al verle que su urbanidad consistiera solamente en el vestir. Iba recordando con algo de execraci?n que tres a?os enteros y ocho meses hab?an transcurrido desde la ?ltima vez que visit? a su padre en aquella solitaria roca donde naci?, y todo aquel tiempo lo hab?a invertido en diversas y opuestas camarader?as entre gentes y costumbres mundanas. Lo que le parec?a usual y corriente en la isla cuando en ella viv?a, le resultaba extra?o e ins?lito despu?s de sus ?ltimas impresiones. M?s que nunca semejaba el paraje lo que, seg?n se dec?a, fue en otro tiempo la antigua isla de Vindilia y la Morada de los Honderos. Ya no eran para ?l familiares y habituales ideas la alt?sima roca, las casas sobre casas, los umbrales de la que en cada una se alzaban al nivel de la chimenea antevecina, los jardines que por una de sus tapias colgaban mirando al cielo, las hortalizas que crec?an en parcelas al parecer casi verticales, y la compacticidad de toda la isla como un recio y ?nico bloque calizo de cuatro millas de longitud. Todo ahora deslumbraba con sin igual blancura, en contraste del coloreado mar, y el sol relumbraba sobre las infinitas estratificaciones de las paredes de oolita,

Biographie:
Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin....

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Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d&apos...