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| Author | : Florence Emily Hardy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 470 |
| Release | : 1962 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Fred Reid |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2017-08-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3319541757 |
This book addresses the questions 'What did Thomas Hardy think about history and how did this enter into his writings?' Scholars have sought answers in 'revolutionary', 'gender', 'postcolonial' and 'millennial' criticism, but these are found to be unsatisfactory. Fred Reid is a historian who seeks answers by setting Hardy more fully in the discourses of philosophical history and the domestic and international affairs of Britain. He shows how Hardy worked out, from the late 1850s, his own 'meliorist' philosophy of history and how it is inscribed in his fiction. Rooted in the idea of cyclical history as propounded by the Liberal Anglican historians, it was adapted after his loss of faith through reading the works of Auguste Comte, George Drysdale and John Stuart Mill and used to defend the right of individuals to break with the Victorian sexual code and make their own 'experiments in living'.
| Author | : Claire Tomalin |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 536 |
| Release | : 2007-01-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1101201924 |
"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 |
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 | : Thomas Hardy |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 642 |
| Release | : 1985-02-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1349101176 |
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 | : Noorul Hasan |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 1982-06-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1349062510 |
| Author | : J. B. Bullen |
| Publisher | : Quarto Publishing Group USA |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2013-06-24 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1781011222 |
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
| Author | : Thomas Hardy |
| Publisher | : Standard Ebooks |
| Total Pages | : 467 |
| Release | : 2023-05-22T17:47:46Z |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Young Elfride falls in love for the first time with an architect who is sent to make plans to renovate the local church. She supposes Stephen to be a professional man from London, but finds he comes from more humble origins. Stephen must go away and make something of himself before he can claim her. Circumstances change in his absence, and Elfride must decide if she will keep her pledge to marry Stephen. A Pair of Blue Eyes is Thomas Hardy’s third novel, and the first one to bear his real name when it was first published. The novel was first published as a serial, and the “cliffhanger” is supposed to have been named after a scene in which a character is left hanging over the edge of a cliff—while readers are left waiting for the next chapter to be serialized. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
| Author | : Michael Millgate |
| Publisher | : New York : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 704 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
A comprehensive account of the author's life based upon many previously unknown materials.
| Author | : Thomas Hardy |
| Publisher | : Anthem Press |
| Total Pages | : 2655 |
| Release | : 2014-11-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0857285920 |
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was a major English poet and novelist; his works, often set in the fictional county of Wessex, are memorable for their realism and criticism of social constraints. This book, the first volume of a two volume selected collection of his works, includes ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’, ‘A Pair of Blue Eyes’, ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’, ‘The Return of the Native’, ‘The Trumpet-Major’ and ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’.
