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Thomas Hardy without his guard.(Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life)(Book review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20070922
Author:Bridgman, Joan

Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life. Ralph Pite. Picador. [pounds sterling]25.00. 522 pages. ISBN 078-350-48186-1.

In spite of Hardy's closeness to our time, the apparent wealth of sources and the evidence of surviving contemporaries, he is as hard to pin down as Shakespeare. Often described as reclusive and shy, he was a man who did not like to be touched or to shake hands, who rarely appeared to look people in the eye and preferred to live almost separately at the back of his own house. The foremost example of his self-protective streak is that he wrote his own two-volume ...

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