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Thomas Hardy

By Claire Tomalin

By Claire Tomalin

By Claire Tomalin

By Claire Tomalin

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Jan 29, 2008 | ISBN 9780143112877

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Jan 18, 2007 | ISBN 9781101201923

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    About Thomas Hardy

    “A masterful portrait” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own.  

    The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover’s shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual and religious conventions of his time in his novels and then abandoned fiction to reestablish himself as a great twentieth-century lyric poet. In this acclaimed new biography, Claire Tomalin, one of today’s preeminent literary biographers, investigates this beloved writer and reveals a figure as rich and complex as his tremendous legacy.

    About Thomas Hardy

    “A masterful portrait” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own.  

    The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover’s shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual and religious conventions of his time in his novels and then abandoned fiction to reestablish himself as a great twentieth-century lyric poet. In this acclaimed new biography, Claire Tomalin, one of today’s preeminent literary biographers, investigates this beloved writer and reveals a figure as rich and complex as his tremendous legacy.

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    Also by Claire Tomalin

    The Young H. G. Wells
    A Life of My Own
    The Invisible Woman
    Charles Dickens
    Samuel Pepys
    See all books by Claire Tomalin

    About Claire Tomalin

    Claire Tomalin is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including Charles Dickens: A Life and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, which won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and a memoir A Life of My Own. She has previously won the James… More about Claire Tomalin

    About Claire Tomalin

    Claire Tomalin is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including Charles Dickens: A Life and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, which won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and a memoir A Life of My Own. She has previously won the James… More about Claire Tomalin

    Product Details

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Criticism | Essays & Literary Collections

    Paperback | $20.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 29, 2008 | 528 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143112877

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Criticism | Essays & Literary Collections

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 18, 2007 | 512 Pages | ISBN 9781101201923

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    Praise

    “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

    Awards

    New York Times Notable Book WINNER

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