Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin

Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin

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. This seminal biography covers Hardy's illegitimate birth, his rural upbringing, his escape to London in the 1860s, his marriages, his status as a bestselling novelist, and his achievements as a poet.

Claire Tomalin was literary editor of the New Statesman and Sunday Times. She has published a collection of journalism and is the author of seven highly acclaimed biographies, including: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (Whitbread First Book Prize); The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography); and Pepys: The Unequalled Self (Whitbread Book of the Year).

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ISBN 13	9780670915125
ISBN 10	0670915122
Title	Thomas Hardy
Author	Claire Tomalin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2006-10-05
Number of pages	512
Prizes	Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards: Biography 2008, Short-listed for British Book Awards: Biography of the Year 2007
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