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Hardy, Thomas: Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life.(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: Biography
Date: 20070622
Author:Wineapple, Brenda

Hardy, Thomas Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life. Ralph Pite. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007. 522 pp. $35.00.

"The latest addition to the Hardy boom is Ralph Pite's 'Thomas Hardy: the Guarded Life.' Attempting to flush out the real Hardy from behind his public image, Pite, a professor of English at Cardiff University, reads Hardy's 'Life' against the grain, contrasting Hardy's self-serving rendition of people and events with his own armchair interpretation of the relations between Hardy and his mother (overbearing), his father (willful) and his two increasingly unhappy wives ...

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