num_pages: 625
description: Michael Millgate's classic biography of Thomas Hardy, was first published in 1982. Much new information about Hardy has since become available, often in volumes edited or co-edited by Millgate himself, and many established assumptions have been challenged and revolutionized by scholarly research. In this extensively revised, fully reconsidered, and considerably-expanded new edition Millgate, the world's leading Hardy scholar, draws not only upon these new materials but upon an exceptional understanding of Hardy gained from long immersion in the study of his life and work. Many large and small aspects of Hardy's life are here freshly illuminated, including his family background, his fumbling self-education as a poet, his difficult relations with his first wife and hers with his family, his sexual infatuations, his secret collaborations with aspiring women writers, his clandestine composition of his own official biography, and the memory-invoking techniques by which he sustainedhis remarkable creativity into extreme old age. Thorough, authoritative and eminently readable, Thomas A Biography Revisited will become the standard life of Hardy for a new generation.
language: English
title: Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited
titlecomplete: Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited
characters: Thomas Hardy
genres: British Literature, History, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 46
publisher: Oxford University Press