Tony Kytes the Arch-deceiver Pack of 10: Leopards Series C

by Thomas Hardy

Genres: Short Stories, Romance

Paperback

Published August 30, 1973

About the author

Thomas Hardy, OM, was an English author of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. He regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain.

The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873. In the novel, Hardy chose to leave one of his protagonists, Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock that has been dead for millions of years. This became the archetypal — and literal — cliff-hanger of Victorian prose.

Excerpted from Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Ted · Rating 3 out of 5]

A short, comical and somewhat farcical story about love and courtship in rural, Victorian England. Amid the humor of an unforeseen love quadrangle that forms on a wagon ride home from town, Hardy shines some light on the prevailing views of marriage and social propriety. These, it turns out, are somewhat more serious matters but Hardy keeps things light. It's a fun story that finds its way to a conventional ending without moral judgement. Very much like one of today's half-hour TV sit coms and not at all like a typical Hardy novel. 3 stars

[Louise B · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think I may have developed a Thomas Hardy obsession...

[Armando Puerto · Rating 5 out of 5]

Media hora de lectura divertida e inteligente.

Tony Kytes es en apariencia solo un cuento cómico, pero desde que el climax comienza a prepararse nos damos cuanta de que es una reflexión sobre reactividad y proactividad en la vida. Al final del día, nadie llega a donde quiere o merece estar siendo reactivo.

[Brian Yahn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tony Kytes is a dog of a character, and his juggling of three wives-to-be is quite the interesting, entertaining, and absurd tale.