Viking, 2006-10-05. 1st Edn, 2nd. Imp.. Hardcover. VG++/f/f. Box X04 HARDBACK ""LITERARY BIOGRAPHY,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 2nd. Stated.* Date: 2006.* Pub: Penguin, Viking.* Binding and cover condition: Indigo cloth-covered boards. Gilt titles to spine. No bumps or rubs. No visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour-illustrated jacket showing an etching by William Strang 1896. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of £25.00. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Now in a clear un-attached protective jacket. FINE.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. Neat gift dedication to ffep. Coloured end papers (dark purple blue), no tanning or other visible faults. No toning to edges. VG++* Illustrations: Two page b/w line/drawn maps at front & 2 x 8pp blocks of b/w illustrations throughout.* Pages: 369 pp. text. cvii pp. epilogue, note, bibliography and index at rear.* Description: 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.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./2nd. thus with only gift inscription reducing it to VG++.* 0

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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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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9871
Title: Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man
Author: Tomalin, Claire
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG++/f/f
Edition: 1st Edn, 2nd. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0670915122
ISBN 13: 9780670915125
Publisher: Viking
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2006-10-05
Pages: 475
X weight: g

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