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Thomas Hardy

De: Claire Tomalin
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Today Thomas Hardy is best known for creating the employing the great Wessex landscape as the backdrop to his rural novels, beginning with Far from the Madding Crowd, and making them classics. But his true legacy is that of a progressive thinker. When he published Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure late in his career, Hardy explored a very different world than that of his rural tales, one in which the plight of the lower classes and women took center stage, while the higher classes were damned.

Ironically, though, Hardy remained safe in the arms of this same upper class during the publication of these books, acting at all times in complete convention with the rules of society. Was he using his books to express himself in a way he felt unable to in the company he kept, or did he know sensationalism would sell? Award-winning author Claire Tomalin expertly reconstructs the life that led Hardy to maintain conventionality while promoting revolution in his writing.

Hardy's work consistently challenged sexual and religious conventions in a way that few other authors of the time dared. Though his personal modesty and kindness allowed some to underestimate him, or even to pity him, they did not prevent him from taking on the central themes of human experience: time, memory, loss, love, fear, grief, anger, uncertainty, death. And it was exactly his quiet life, full of the small, personal dramas of family quarrels, rivalries, and, at times, despair, that infuses his works with the rich detail that sets them apart as masterpieces.

In this engrossing biography, Tomalin skillfully identifies the inner demons and the outer mores that drove Hardy and presents a rich and complex portrait of one of the greatest figures in English literature.

©2007 Claire Tomalin (P)2007 Tantor Media Inc. Arte y Literatura Autores Biografía

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"A richly introspective biography sure to rekindle interest in Hardy's writing." (Kirkus Reviews)
"A feat of distillation and mature judgment, Tomalin's biography artfully presents Hardy in his intimate and social world, offering succinct and insightful readings of his work along the way." (Publishers Weekly)
"This is the triumph of the biographer's art, of which Tomalin is a master: to be absolutely true to the last scrap of fact-that is, never to embellish or contort those facts-yet to create something utterly new and undreamt of, something more than the mere sum of those facts." (Chicago Tribune)

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I had read most of Hardy's novels a few years ago, but have since returned to him to read his poetry. I had never realized he was a poet, and most of his later life was spent as a poet. Why he abruptly stopped writing novels and returned to poetry is well covered here, and there are many poems here, in full or excerpts, with the background story well interwoven. Also well covered is his troubled marriage(s). So well written, that by the end, I choked up while listening, and not like I couldn't see death coming in a biography. I am glad he received so much recognition by the end of his surprisingly humble life.
The narrator is suburb. She has has a bagful of appropriate accents to bring the quotes to life, and it is easy to follow when the story changes from background text (read in the King's English) to quoted works, and to quoted speech, Perfect.
I ended up buying a used hardcover edition in mint condition that has too sets of photographs, and I am looking forward to going back to review the virtual bookmarks I made in the audio edition. I look forward to trying another of the author's bios.

One of the best biographies I've read/listened to

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I have been a fan of Thomas Hardy for many years. This book did a remarkable job of telling an intimate story of his private life and work. I have a new-found respect for the author. All Hardy fans would benefit from listening to this comprehensive biography. I might have enjoyed it more read by a different narrator. That's the reason for the 4 stars.

Hardy Fan

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Thank you for writing such a honest and stark account. I will never think of him the same, simply a human being, making his novels all the more miracles that they are.

Ms. Tomalin has made Hardy’s life as rich as his novels

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Highly recommended, excellent narrator. A basic knowledge of Hardy’s writing will enhance the audiobook for you.

Beautiful Biography

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Delightfully written, well researched, honest and insightful; a delight to any reader but particularly to one who comes from Dorset or knows that part of England well. Thus, I am biased! However, the author endears Hardy to the reader without adornment, gradually adding more and more events that attest to the character of the man. It ends with a sublime period of Hardy's life, with poetry as the recurrent backdrop, a most fitting finale. Realxing, eye opening and a marvellous book for a sunny, country weekend.

A Sensitive Portrait

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This book is worth eleven hours of attention if, like me, you are fascinated by Thomas Hardy's being a man ahead of his time with respect to his view of his female characters, his care for the land, and his understanding of the class system during the late 1800's. I wanted to know where his views came from.

This is a very complete history, to the extent that you no only go through his life, but the lives of family and friends. Great for the historian, but I felt in the end that some questions still linger.

Worse, I didn't feel the writers perspective was at all objective. She went about trying to prove her hypothesis and in the end, I wasn't convinced. However still, I felt it was interesting and well written.

The reader has a very pleasing voice and she manages French and German phrases with ease. However, when portraying women, she used affected speech that made you feel she was holding judgement of the individual. I understand the stiffness of Victorian language, but perhaps this woman wasn't haughty or aloof. I saw that the readers portrayal could misrepresent an important character.



Mixed Feelings

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