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Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man

Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man

by Claire Tomalin (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 512
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 05 Jul 2007
ISBN 10: 0141017414
ISBN 13: 9780141017419
Prizes: Shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Awards: Biography 2008 and British Book Awards: Biography of the Year 2007.

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
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).