THOMAS HARDY THE TIME - TORN MAN

2007, 486 STRAN - PAGES  + 16 STRAN ČB PŘÍLOHY NA KŘÍDOVÉM PAPÍŘE - PHOTO PAGES, BROŽOVANÁ - PAPERBACK, VELMI DOBRÝ STAV - VERY GOOD CONDITION

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 books Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman, Thomas Hardy the novelist, poet, neglectful husband and mourning lover all come vividly alive. 'Another triumph for a biographer who goes from strength to strength' Melvyn Bragg, Guardian, Books of the Year 'Tomalin provides an object lesson in how to write a life' Economist 'It is a  moving story, and Tomalin tells it as vividly, with as great a fund of sympathy and sense, as can be imagined' James Wood, London  Review of Books 'Skilful and absorbing, admirable. The most compelling of life stories' Daily Telegraph