The Secret Life of Thomas Hardy
Subtitle: 'Retaliatory Fiction' (The Nineteenth Century Series)
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780754638414
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Poetry & poets: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Hardy, Thomas,; English; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Experimental fiction, English; Fictional works; 1840-1928; History and criticism; In literature; Wessex (England)
First sentence: It is still quite widely assumed that Hardy, a sadder and a wiser man after his first work failed to win acceptance by a publisher, humbly recanted and reverted to type-or rather, what we take his type to be.