Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man |
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| Author:
| Tomalin, Claire |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59420-118-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Penguin Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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"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...
More Description "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.