{"product_id":"2026200010398-secondhand-the-life-of-thomas-hardy-1840-1928","title":"The Life Of Thomas Hardy: 1840-1928","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew literary lives are as intricately woven with the landscape and soul of rural England as that of Thomas Hardy, the great Victorian novelist and poet whose work reshaped the literary imagination of the English-speaking world. The Life of Thomas Hardy: 1840–1928 chronicles the remarkable journey of a self-taught stonemason's son from the heaths of Dorset who rose to become one of the most celebrated and controversial writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries — the author of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jude the Obscure.\n\nWritten by Florence Emily Hardy, Thomas Hardy's second wife, this biography draws on intimate personal knowledge and Hardy's own private notebooks and reminiscences, presenting a portrait of the man behind the masterworks with unparalleled closeness. Scholars have long noted that Hardy himself had a significant hand in shaping the narrative, making it as much an autobiographical document as a biography — a deliberate act of literary self-fashioning from beyond the grave. Rich in personal detail and literary anecdote, this volume stands as an indispensable primary source for anyone who wishes to understand not just the writer, but the restless, melancholic genius who asked what it meant to be fully human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130691199195,"sku":"2026200010398-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/700ab49c-69fe-48be-8324-e74880ae4763.png?v=1786588490","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010398-secondhand-the-life-of-thomas-hardy-1840-1928","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}