Overview
"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own. 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.
- | Author: Claire Tomalin
- | Publisher: Penguin Books
- | Publication Date: Jan 01, 2008
- | Number of Pages: 528 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0143112872
- | ISBN-13: 9780143112877
