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.
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- ISBN
9780141017419
- Published
- July 5th 2007 by Penguin Books Ltd
- Category
- General
- Number of pages
- 512
- County of origin
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Dimensions
- 197 x 129
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