Highly praised for JOHN KEATS (also available in Penguin Classic Biography), Robert Gittings repeats his success with this biography of the young Thomas Hardy - the first for a quarter of a century - cutting through the speculations and half-truths to give an outstanding and evocative account of the crucially important first thirty-five years of one of England's greatest novelists and poets.
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Robert Gittings (1911-92) was born in Portsmouth and was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and Jesus College, Cambridge where he became a Fellow. A distinguished biographer and poet, Dr Gittings is also the author of JOHN KEATS to be published in Penguin Classic Biography in July 2001.
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