Thomas Hardy / Claire Tomalin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomalin, Claire.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Hardy, Thomas.

Authors, English--19th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Authors, English--20th century--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxv, 486 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin, 2007.

Summary:

In this seminal biography of the enigmatic novelist and poet Thomas Hardy ("Tess of the d'Urbervilles"), Whitbread Award winner Tomalin skillfully identifies the inner demons and the outer mores that drove Hardy and presents a rich and complex portrait of one of the greatest figures in English literature.

Contents:

Map showing the area around Higher Bockhampton and Max Gate xiv

Part 1 1840-1867

1 Mother 3

2 Child 18

3 The Bookish Boy 31

4 Friends and Brothers 46

5 The Londoner 63

Part 2 1867-1874

6 The Clever Lad's Dream 87

7 Lyonnesse 99

8 The True Vocation 112

9 Easy to Die 126

10 A Short Visit to the Continent 141

Part 3 1875-1905

11 Dreaming the Heath 163

12 Hardy Joins a Club 175

13 The Tower 188

14 The Conformers 200

15 The Blighted Star 218

16 Tom and Em 233

17 The Terra-cotta Dress 245

18 A Witch and a Wife 263

19 Cat, Bird, Eagle, Sphinx 279

Part 4 1905-1928

20 Convergence 297

21 Satires of Circumstance 312

22 A Friend from Cambridge 326

23 The Wizard 339

24 Winter Words 358.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1594201188

OCLC:

78739114