Thomas Hardy : a literary life

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Thomas Hardy : a literary life

James Gibson

(Macmillan literary lives)

Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 1996

  • : uk, hbk
  • : uk, pbk
  • : us

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Bibliography: p. 196-197

Includes index

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Description

Thomas Hardy in the Literary Lives series relates Hardy's life to his career as a writer, giving particular attention to his determination as a young man to make literature his career, his methodical preparation during the first thirty years of his life for that career, the writing of his fourteen published novels and the fame they brought him, and then, the culmination of his life as writer, his emergence in his remaining thirty years as one of the very greatest of English poets and the writer of The Dynasts.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements - Bibliography - Phase the First: Preparing to be a Writer (1842-1870) - Phase the Second: The Novelist (1840-1897) - Phase the Third: The Poet (1898-1928) - Index

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