{"product_id":"thomas-hardy-9780143112877","title":"Thomas Hardy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Claire Tomalin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A masterful portrait\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of \u003ci\u003eA Life of My Own\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.","brand":"Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408449429655,"sku":"9780143112877","price":2597.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143112877.webp?v=1767309916","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/thomas-hardy-9780143112877","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}