Thomas Hardy

Claire Tomalin

RRP: £25.00

Publisher: VIKING

Publication Date : 05/10/2006

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

This seminal biography, by a 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. A major literary biography for the autumn.

Publisher's description:

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.

ISBN: 9780670915125