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From: Winnipeg Free Press
Date: 20061217
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Thomas Hardy

The Time-Torn Man

By Claire Tomalin

Viking, 486 pages, $27

Reviewed by Graeme Voyer

THE life of Thomas Hardy is superbly depicted in this new biography.

Hardy (1840-1928), a novelist and poet, was one of the foremost English men of letters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His fame is based on such novels as The Return of the Native, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure.

The author of this volume, British writer Claire Tomalin, is well-suited to the task: she has written several previous literary biographies. Her subjects have included Mary Wollstonecraft ...

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