{"product_id":"9780241963289","title":"Thomas Hardy : The Time-torn Man","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Claire Tomalin\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBiography: literary\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 21 June 2012 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 528 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 133 x 33mm | 370g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seminal biography of a great poet, novelist and sacred figure in English writing, Thomas Hardy, from bestselling author Clare Tomalin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'An extraordinary story, beautifully told. Tomalin is the most empathetic of biographers' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the hands of Whitbread Award-winning biographer Claire Tomalin, author of the bestselling Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman, Thomas Hardy comes vividly alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e '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  'A moving story, and Tomalin tells it vividly, with as great a fund of sympathy and sense, as can be imagined' Daily Telegraph  'Skilful and absorbing, admirable. The most compelling of life stories' Daily Telegraph  'Hardy emerges as a man full of spirit and gaiety' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Claire Tomalin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56153996951877,"sku":"9780241963289","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780241963289.jpg?v=1762273382","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780241963289","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}