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  • Published: 1 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141909738
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512

Thomas Hardy

The Time-torn Man




Britain's leading biographer and Whitbread Prize-winning author Claire Tomalin tackles one of our greatest novelists and poets

Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraordinary: from the poverty of rural Dorset he went on to become the Grand Old Man of English life and letters, his last resting place in Westminster Abbey. This seminal biography, by our leading biographer, covers Hardy's illegitimate birth, his rural upbringing, his escape to London in the 1860s, his marriages, his status as a bestselling novelist, and in later life, his supreme achievements as a poet.

  • Published: 1 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141909738
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512

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