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The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy

Author: Thomas Hardy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1985-02-16

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 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.

The Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928 : Compiled Largely from Contemporary Notes, and Biographical Memoranda, as Well as from Oral Information in Conversations Extending Over Many Years

Author: Florence Emily Hardy

Publisher:

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13:

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Thomas Hardy

Author: Claire Tomalin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-01-18

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 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.

The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1891

Author: Florence Emily Hardy

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13:

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Based on contemporary notes, letters, diaries, and biographical memoranda, as well as from oral information in conversations extending over many years.

The Life of Thomas Hardy

Author: Paul Turner

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Published: 2001-06-08

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 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.

Thomas Hardy

Author: Thomas Hardy

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2014-11-01

Total Pages: 2377

ISBN-13: 0857285920

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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’.

Thomas Hardy

Author: Mark Ford

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-10-10

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 067473789X

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Acknowledgements -- Index

Thomas Hardy

Author: Ralph Pite

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 9780330481861

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The Guarded Life challenges some of the long-held views of Hardy - did he spend all his early life in preparation for his career as a writer, and did his novels really come a distant second to his poetry in his heart? In his personal life, did his first wife, Emma Hardy, really trick him into marriage and was she the ambitious women her enemies have painted her as being? And what of Florence, his second wife, who has so often been caricatured in her conflicted and passionate feelings for Hardy? By examining the relationships and contexts that shaped Hardy most - the women, the friendships and mentors, the social and family pressures, the career structures and the Dorsetshire landscape - The Guarded Life reveals the personality and emotional life of a public figure who has despite his fame remained until now largely obscure.