Thomas Hardy - Brossura

Tomalin, Claire

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0143112872 ISBN 13: 9780143112877

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2008

Riassunto

A seminal portrait of the enigmatic nineteenth-century novelist and poet, written by the Whitbread Book of the Year-winning author of Samuel Pepys, discusses his humble origins, rise through the London literary scene, and efforts to challenge the sexual and religious conventions of his time. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"A fascinating case study in mid-Victorian literary sociology."
-The New York Times

"Admirable . . . One returns to Thomas Hardy with renewed pleasure and surprise."
-The New York Review of Books

"Tomalin brings . . . the skills of an experienced and accomplished biographer . . . and the confidence of a deeply informed literary critic."
-Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

L'autore:

Claire Tomalin is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including Thomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, which won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. She has previously won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Whitbread Biography Award. Educated at Cambridge University, she served as literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times (London). Claire Tomalin lives in London and is married to the playwright Michael Frayn.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143112872
• ISBN 13: 9780143112877
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 528