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Hardy, Unobscured: An essential English novelist and poet finally gets the biography he deserves.(Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man)(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: O, The Oprah Magazine
Date: 20070201
Author:Passaro, Vince

Thomas Hardy is one of the great novelists in the English language, writing in the last third of the 19th century, when the form was at its peak. With George Eliot, Henry James, and Robert Louis Stevenson, he forms a glittering bridge between the Victorian and the modern. Alone among them he made nearly as strong a mark in poetry as in prose. In a new biography, Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (Penguin), Claire Tomalin meticulously details the life of the author who rattled the English literary world with Tess of the d'Urbervilles, an astonishingly beautiful and sad novelistic ode ...

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