The London Times says: “Worthy of the hand that drew ‘Weir of Hermiston,’” and that “Balzac and Flaubert, had they been Scotch, would have written such a book.”
The Spectator: “His masters are Zola and Balzac, but there are few traces of the novice and none of the imitator.”
Vanity Fair: “It moves to its end with all the terrible unity of an Æschylean tragedy.”
Harper’s Weekly: “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.”
Hardy, Stevenson, Zola, Flaubert, Balzac, and Æschylus.
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