Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man - Hardcover

Tomalin, Claire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670915122 ISBN 13: 9780670915125

Publisher: Viking, 2006

Synopsis

Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraordinary: from the poverty of rural Dorset he went on to become the Grand Old Man of English life and letters, his last resting place in Westminster Abbey. This seminal biography, by our leading biographer, covers Hardy’s illegitimate birth, his rural upbringing, his escape to London in the 1860s, his marriages, his status as a bestselling novelist, and in later life, his supreme achievements as a poet.

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Review:

"A fascinating case study in mid-Victorian literary sociology." -"The New York Times" "Admirable . . . One returns to Thomas Hardy with renewed pleasure and surprise." -"The New York Review of Books" "Tomalin brings . . . the skills of an experienced and accomplished biographer . . . and the confidence of a deeply informed literary critic." -Jonathan Yardley, "The Washington Post"

About the Author:

Claire Tomalin was literary editor of the New Statesman and Sunday Times. She has published a collection of journalism and is the author of seven highly acclaimed biographies, including: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (Whitbread First Book Prize); The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography); and Pepys: The Unequalled Self (Whitbread Book of the Year).

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0670915122
• ISBN 13: 9780670915125
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512