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Author | : Claire Tomalin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2007-01-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101201924 |
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"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 | : Paul Turner |
Publisher | : Blackwell Publishing |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2001-06-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780631228509 |
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Born the son of a village stonemason and a cook, Hardy made himself the best-known English author of his day. Outwardly uneventful, his personal life was interesting chiefly as raw material for his writings.
Author | : Michael Millgate |
Publisher | : Oxford : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780199275656 |
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Michael Millgate, one of the world's leading Hardy scholars adds 20 years' worth of new research to his classic biography. He presents new insights into Hardy's writing, his private life and his two marriages.
Author | : Michael Millgate |
Publisher | : New York : Random House |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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A comprehensive account of the author's life based upon many previously unknown materials.
Author | : Ralph Pite |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 030012337X |
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A portrait of the enigmatic nineteenth-century novelist and poet discusses his humble origins, rise through the London literary scene, and efforts to guard his privacy.
Author | : Thomas Hardy |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 1985-02-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349101176 |
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One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography. Since the true circumstances of its composition have been known The Early Life and Later Years of Thomas Hardy, published over the name of Florence Emily Hardy, has frequently been referred to as Hardy's autobiography. But this is not the whole truth: Florence altered much of what Hardy meant to appear in his 'biography'. Through careful examination of pre- publication texts, Michael Millgate has retrieved the text as it stood at the time of Hardy's final revision. For the first time The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy can be read as a true work of autobiography - an addition to the Hardy canon.
Author | : Mark Ford |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2016-10-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 067473789X |
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Acknowledgements -- Index
Author | : Florence Emily Hardy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1108033830 |
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The first volume (1928) of a fascinating account of Hardy's life, compiled by him in collaboration with his second wife.
Author | : Dale Kramer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 1999-06-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139825550 |
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Thomas Hardy's fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most influential of the twentieth century. His work still creates passionate advocacy and opposition. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy is an essential introduction to this most enigmatic of writers. These commissioned essays from an international team of contributors comprises a general overview of all Hardy' s work and specific demonstrations of Hardy's ideas and literary skills. Individual essays explore Hardy's biography, aesthetics, his famous attachment to Wessex, and the impact on his work of developments in science, religion and philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Hardy's writing is also analysed against developments in contemporary critical theory and issues such as sexuality and gender. The volume also contains a detailed chronology of Hardy's life and publications, and a guide to further reading.
Author | : J. B. Bullen |
Publisher | : Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2013-06-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1781011222 |
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A study of the fictious world in Hardy’s novels in relation to real places and Hardy’s real-life experiences. Thomas Hardy’s Wessex is one of the great literary evocations of place, populated with colourful and dramatic characters. As lovers of his novels and poetry know, this ‘partly real, partly dream-country’ was firmly rooted in the Dorset into which he had been born. J. B. Bullen explores the relationship between reality and the dream, identifying the places and the settings for Hardy’s writing, and showing how and why he shaped them to serve the needs of his characters and plots. The locations may be natural or man-made, but they are rarely fantastic or imaginary. A few have been destroyed and some moved from their original site, but all of them actually existed, and we can still trace most of them on the ground today. Thomas Hardy: The World of his Novels is essential reading for students of literature and for all Hardy enthusiasts who want to gain new insights into his work. Praise for Thomas Hardy “Take pleasure in a book like this one, which skillfully interweaves its evocative accounts of Hardy’s life, of Dorset and Cornwall places, and of the stories unfolded from places in six of his novels (and a few poems) so that we vividly re-experience them. . . . The pleasures of this book (and they are real) come from its ability to re-enchant us in a way that is not un-Hardy-like, to draw us again into the intensely seen, heard, and felt world of the novels and poems. It set me to re-reading Hardy, with different eyes.” —Review 19