Thomas Hardy : The Time-torn Man

Sue says about Thomas Hardy : The Time-torn Man: "A fantastic biography of Thomas Hardy, quoting from both his poetry and novels and setting them against the backdrop of his life."

The seminal biography of a great poet, novelist and sacred figure in English writing, Thomas Hardy, from bestselling author Clare Tomalin.

Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband and a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized the friendship of aristocrats.

In the hands of Whitbread Award-winning biographer Claire Tomalin, author of the bestselling Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman, Thomas Hardy comes vividly alive.

Author: Tomalin, Claire
Biography: literary
Published on 21 June 2012 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 528 pages
198 x 133 x 33 | 370g