{"product_id":"9780241963289","title":"Thomas Hardy : The Time-torn Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Tomalin, Claire, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 21\/06\/2012,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 512 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Biography: literary\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780241963289\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Hardy is the acclaimed biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParadox 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClaire Tomalin is the award-winning author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; Shelley and His World; Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens; Mrs Jordan's Profession; Jane Austen: A Life; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self; Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man and, most recently, Charles Dickens: A Life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times, she is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35023005679769,"sku":"9780241963289","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780241963289.jpg?v=1602535461","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780241963289","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}