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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy | Claire Tomalin
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"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer 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.
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Litsi
Thomas Hardy | Claire Tomalin
Mehso-so

I learned facts. Hint: he is the original example of “ write what you know”. BUT I was astonished by the authors‘ plaint about how pessimistic he was & that she couldn‘t understand it. Failing to understand your subject disqualifies you as a biographer and reduces you to a reporter. Which is probably why this book was like the driest English toast. There has just got to be a better telling. I‘ll search and let you know. #classics # Hardylover

bibliothecarivs I haven't read Tomalin's yet but Millgate's 'Biography Revisited' was excellent. From one #HardyLover to another. 3y
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Leftcoastzen
Thomas Hardy | Claire Tomalin
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More from the Library sale! Harvard Classics and Literary Biographies,yes please!

merelybookish Oooh Colette! Great haul! 5y
Leftcoastzen @merelybookish I cut off the author it‘s the Julia Kristeva Colette , been looking for it a while 5y
DivineDiana Fantastic haul! 👏🏻📚👏🏻 5y
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batsy Looks like a fab haul! Is that a De Beauvoir bio? 5y
Leftcoastzen @batsy yes ! So happy to find it! Yay book sales! 5y
LeahBergen Wow! I‘m feeling covetous. 😆 5y
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AndiP74
Thomas Hardy | Claire Tomalin
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really getting into this biography now

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amandaplease
Thomas Hardy | Claire Tomalin
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I gave my coffee a matching mustache, obviously. Happy Wednesday! 🐪

CaitlinMiller Ohhhh this looks good 8y
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