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The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy

Palgrave Macmillan

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  1. Thomas Hardy
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  1. Michael Millgate

    1. Toronto, Canada

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Table of contents (38 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvii
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  2. Early Life and Architecture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Birth and Boyhood

      • Thomas Hardy
      Pages 7-30

    3. Student and Architect

      • Thomas Hardy
      Pages 31-39

    4. London

      • Thomas Hardy
      Pages 40-56

    5. Between Architecture and Literature

      • Thomas Hardy
      Pages 57-68

  3. Novels—to Illness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. A Plot, an Idyll, and a Romance

      • Thomas Hardy
      Pages 85-96

    4. Holland, the Rhine, and Sturminster Newton

      • Thomas Hardy
      Pages 113-122

    5. Life and Literature in a London Suburb

      • Thomas Hardy
      Pages 123-133

    6. London Life, France, and Cambridge

      • Thomas Hardy
      Pages 134-145

  4. Illness, Novels, and Italy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. Writing Under Difficulties; and a Change

      • Thomas Hardy
      Pages 149-156

    3. Wimborne and the Astronomical Romance

      • Thomas Hardy
      Pages 157-166

    4. The County Town

      • Thomas Hardy
      Pages 167-180

    5. The New House and “The Woodlanders”

      • Thomas Hardy
      Pages 181-193

    6. Italy

      • Thomas Hardy
      Pages 194-204

  5. Between Town and Country

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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About this book

One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography. Since the true circumstances of its composition have been known The Early Life and Later Years of Thomas Hardy, published over the name of Florence Emily Hardy, has frequently been referred to as Hardy's autobiography. But this is not the whole truth: Florence altered much of what Hardy meant to appear in his 'biography'. Through careful examination of pre- publication texts, Michael Millgate has retrieved the text as it stood at the time of Hardy's final revision. For the first time The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy can be read as a true work of autobiography - an addition to the Hardy canon.
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  • Toronto, Canada

    Michael Millgate

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