{"product_id":"9781594201189-secondhand-thomas-hardy","title":"Thomas Hardy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A masterful portrait\" (\"The Philadelphia Inquirer\") from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer   The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual and religious conventions of his time in his novels and then abandoned fiction to reestablish himself as a great twentieth-century lyric poet. In this acclaimed new biography, Claire Tomalin, one of today's preeminent literary biographers, investigates this beloved writer and reveals a figure as rich and complex as his tremendous legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48869451137243,"sku":"9781594201189-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9781594201189-us-300.jpg?v=1781487417","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781594201189-secondhand-thomas-hardy","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}