Author: Claire Tomalin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101201924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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"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.
Author: Michael Millgate
Publisher: New York : Random House
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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A comprehensive account of the author's life based upon many previously unknown materials.
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349101176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography. Since the true circumstances of its composition have been known The Early Life and Later Years of Thomas Hardy, published over the name of Florence Emily Hardy, has frequently been referred to as Hardy's autobiography. But this is not the whole truth: Florence altered much of what Hardy meant to appear in his 'biography'. Through careful examination of pre- publication texts, Michael Millgate has retrieved the text as it stood at the time of Hardy's final revision. For the first time The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy can be read as a true work of autobiography - an addition to the Hardy canon.
Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030012337X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 539
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A portrait of the enigmatic nineteenth-century novelist and poet discusses his humble origins, rise through the London literary scene, and efforts to guard his privacy.
Author: Mark Ford
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067473789X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Acknowledgements -- Index
Author: J. Gibson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230372643
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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Thomas Hardy in the Literary Lives series relates Hardy's life to his career as a writer, giving particular attention to his determination as a young man to make literature his career, his methodical preparation during the first thirty years of his life for that career, the writing of his fourteen published novels and the fame they brought him, and then, the culmination of his life as writer, his emergence in his remaining thirty years as one of the very greatest of English poets and the writer of The Dynasts.
Author: Florence Emily Hardy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Based on contemporary notes, letters, diaries, and biographical memoranda, as well as from oral information in conversations extending over many years.
Author: Paul Turner
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 9780631228509
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Born the son of a village stonemason and a cook, Hardy made himself the best-known English author of his day. Outwardly uneventful, his personal life was interesting chiefly as raw material for his writings.
Author: Florence Emily Hardy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857285920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2377
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Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was a major English poet and novelist; his works, often set in the fictional county of Wessex, are memorable for their realism and criticism of social constraints. This book, the first volume of a two volume selected collection of his works, includes ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’, ‘A Pair of Blue Eyes’, ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’, ‘The Return of the Native’, ‘The Trumpet-Major’ and ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’.
