{"product_id":"thomas-hardy-the-time-torn-man","title":"Thomas Hardy The Time Torn Man By Hardy, Thomas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe seminal biography of a great poet, novelist and sacred figure in English writing, Thomas Hardy, from bestselling author Clare Tomalin.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e''An extraordinary story, beautifully told. Tomalin is the most empathetic of biographers'' Craig Brown, \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the hands of Whitbread Award-winning biographer Claire Tomalin, author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eCharles Dickens: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas Hardy comes vividly alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e''Another triumph for a biographer who goes from strength to strength'' \u003c\/b\u003eMelvyn Bragg, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Tomalin provides an object lesson in how to write a life'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e''A moving story, and Tomalin tells it vividly, with as great a fund of sympathy and sense, as can be imagined'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Skilful and absorbing, admirable. The most compelling of life stories'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Hardy emerges as a man full of spirit and gaiety'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57549846806910,"sku":"NW9780241963289","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241963289.jpg?v=1783093698","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/thomas-hardy-the-time-torn-man","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}