Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy
Title Thomas Hardy PDF eBook
Author Claire Tomalin
Publisher Penguin
Pages 536
Release 2007-01-18
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 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.

Thomas Hardy and History

Thomas Hardy and History
Title Thomas Hardy and History PDF eBook
Author Fred Reid
Publisher Springer
Pages 241
Release 2017-08-17
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3319541757

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This book addresses the questions 'What did Thomas Hardy think about history and how did this enter into his writings?' Scholars have sought answers in 'revolutionary', 'gender', 'postcolonial' and 'millennial' criticism, but these are found to be unsatisfactory. Fred Reid is a historian who seeks answers by setting Hardy more fully in the discourses of philosophical history and the domestic and international affairs of Britain. He shows how Hardy worked out, from the late 1850s, his own 'meliorist' philosophy of history and how it is inscribed in his fiction. Rooted in the idea of cyclical history as propounded by the Liberal Anglican historians, it was adapted after his loss of faith through reading the works of Auguste Comte, George Drysdale and John Stuart Mill and used to defend the right of individuals to break with the Victorian sexual code and make their own 'experiments in living'.

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

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
Title 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 PDF eBook
Author Florence Emily Hardy
Publisher
Pages 470
Release 1962
Genre
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The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy

The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
Title The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy PDF eBook
Author Thomas Hardy
Publisher Springer
Pages 642
Release 1985-02-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1349101176

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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.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Title Tess of the D'Urbervilles PDF eBook
Author Thomas Hardy
Publisher
Pages 284
Release 1892
Genre English fiction
ISBN

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The Life of Thomas Hardy

The Life of Thomas Hardy
Title The Life of Thomas Hardy PDF eBook
Author Paul Turner
Publisher Blackwell Publishing
Pages 326
Release 2001-06-08
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 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

Thomas Hardy
Title Thomas Hardy PDF eBook
Author Thomas Hardy
Publisher Anthem Press
Pages 2377
Release 2014-11-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 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’.