Thomas Hardy

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Penguin, 2007 - 486 pagine
"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.
 

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Mother
3
Child
18
The Bookish Boy
31
Friends and Brothers
46
The Londoner
63
18671874
85
The Clever Lads Dream
87
Lyonnesse
99
The Blighted Star
218
Tom and Em
233
The Terracotta Dress
245
A Witch and a Wife
263
Cat Bird Eagle Sphinx
279
Convergence
297
Satires of Circumstance
312
A Friend from Cambridge
326

The True Vocation
112
Easy to Die
126
A Short Visit to the Continent
141
18751905
161
Dreaming the Heath
163
Hardy Joins a Club
175
The Tower
188
The Conformers
200
The Wizard
339
Winter Words
358
EPILOGUE
370
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
381
BIBLIOGRAPHY
453
TEXT AND ILLUSTRATION PERMISSIONS
462
Copyright

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Claire Tomalin is the author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Whitbread Biography Award, the Samuel Pepys Award, and dubbed "invaluable" by The New York Review of Books. She is a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Wordsworth Trust, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Vice President of English PEN. She lives her husband, the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn

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