Thomas Hardy: A Biography

Millgate, Michael

ISBN 10: 0192117254 / ISBN 13: 9780192117250

Editore: Random House, 1982

A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. Codice articolo GOR003467022

Riassunto:

Michael Millgate's classic biography of Thomas Hardy, was first published in 1982. Much new information about Hardy has since become available, often in volumes edited or co-edited by Millgate himself, and many established assumptions have been challenged and revolutionized by scholarly research. In this extensively revised, fully reconsidered, and considerably-expanded new edition Millgate, the world's leading Hardy scholar, draws not only upon these new materials but upon an exceptional understanding of Hardy gained from long immersion in the study of his life and work. Many large and small aspects of Hardy's life are here freshly illuminated, including his family background, his fumbling self-education as a poet, his difficult relations with his first wife and hers with his family, his sexual infatuations, his secret collaborations with aspiring women writers, his clandestine composition of his own official biography, and the memory-invoking techniques by which he sustained his remarkable creativity into extreme old age. Thorough, authoritative and eminently readable, Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited will become the standard life of Hardy for a new generation.

L'autore: Michael Millgate is University Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He has edited seven volumes of Hardy's letters, and the selected letters of his wives.

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Titolo: Thomas Hardy: A Biography
Casa editrice: Random House
Data di pubblicazione: 1982
Legatura: Hardback
Illustratore: Illus. With Photos
Condizione: Fair