Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraor dinary: from the poverty of rural Dorset, he went on to become the Gra nd Old Man of English life and letters, his last resting place in West minster Abbey.This seminal biography, by our leading biographer, cover s Hardy's illegitimate birth, his rural upbringing, his escape to Lond on in the 1860s, his marriages, his status as a bestselling novelist, and in later life, his supreme achievements as a poet.
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