human
Worthy of the hand that drew 'Weir of Hermiston,' and that
gpt
Balzac and Flaubert, had they been Scotch, would have written such a book.
human
His masters are Zola and Balzac, but there are few traces of the novice and none of the imitator.
gpt
It moves to its end with all the terrible unity of an Æschylean tragedy.
human
If Thomas Hardy had written of Scotland, instead of Wessex, it would have been something like 'The House with the Green Shutters'.... If any man is his (Douglas') master it is Thomas Hardy.