CONCORD –The Concord Free Public Library is pleased to announce that Randall Warniers will present a talk on the works of Thomas Hardy at the Fowler Branch of the Concord Free Public Library (1322 Main Street) on Monday, November 6th at 7:00 PM.
Thomas Hardy is widely considered one of the great writers of the 19th century, yet many readers who were exposed to his books at an early age won’t touch another Hardy novel with a ten-foot pole. Readers might say he is old-fashioned, hard to read, cruel to his characters, unnecessarily dark, and depressing.
This lecture may change the minds of those readers. It is true that Hardy’s novels and his poems can be hard to defend. They are often dark, yet beautifully so, and have a Shakespearean dimension of character action that results in tragic consequences. So why read him? Because he sees the truth of human experience, and he shows how who we are and what we do affect everything. His writing is graceful and elegant as well as forceful and profound. Give him another chance, and another read.
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Randall Warniers has pursued interests in 19th-century British literature and early 20th-century American cinema for decades. He has worked in the world of publishing since 1989, and he is currently a freelance editor and book publisher.
Free. Please email bgugluizza@minlib.net to register, or call (978) 318-3365. You may also register on the Library’s calendar of events at https://concordlibrary.org/news-events/events-calendar/.
