Thomas HardyPenguin, 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 |
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