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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Format: TradePaperback
Author: Tomalin, Claire
ISBN: 9780143112877
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 8.36 x 1.13
Number Of Pages: 486
Publication Year: 2008

Thomas Hardy

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