Thomas Hardy
Author(s): Claire Tomalin
"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer 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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books
- : Penguin Books
- : 0.476
- : 01 January 2008
- : 212mm X 141mm X 29mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Claire Tomalin
- : Paperback / softback
- : 2006
- : 823.8
- : maps, black & white plates