Thomas Hardy - The Time-Torn Man

Informationen zum Autor Claire Tomalin was literary editor of the New Statesman then the Sunday Times before leaving to become a full-time writer. Her first book, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft , won the Whitbread First Book Award, and she has since written a number of highly acclaimed and bestselling biographies. They include Jane Austen: A Life, The Invisible Woman , a definitive account of Dickens' relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, which won three major literary awards, and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self was Whitbread Book of the Year in 2002. In the highly acclaimed Charles Dickens: A Life , she presents a full-scale biography of our greatest novelist. She is married to the writer Michael Frayn. Klappentext Claire Tomalin is a former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times. She has written seven highly acclaimed literary biographies, all available in Penguin, and has won many prizes, including the Whitbread Book of the Year for Samuel Pepys. She is married to the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Tomalin
• Assisted by: Jill Balcon (Reader / Narrator), David Shaw-Parker (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.06.2012
• EAN: 9780241963289
• ISBN: 978-0-241-96328-9
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; England, 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Literature: history & criticism, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism