One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography
"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own. The novels of Thomas Hardy have a
Born the son of a village stonemason and a cook, Hardy made himself the best-known English author of his day. Outwardly uneventful, his personal life was intere
Based on contemporary notes, letters, diaries, and biographical memoranda, as well as from oral information in conversations extending over many years.