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The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, the father of science fiction, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H.G Wells' life shape a fantastic writer into a visionary? Claire Tomalin's remarkable and empathetic biography, focusing on HG Wells' early l ...Show more
Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unha ...Show more
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband but a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized the ...Show more
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography Memoir
Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraordinary: from the poverty of rural Dorset he went on to become the Grand Old Man of English life and letters, his last resting place in Westminster Abbey. This semin ...Show more
Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography Memoir
Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraordinary: from the poverty of rural Dorset he went on to become the Grand Old Man of English life and letters, his last resting place in Westminster Abbey. This semin ...Show more
Young Bysshe (Pocket Penguin 70 Years) by Claire Tomalin
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Claire Tomalin writes literary biogarphies that are as conpulsive to read as they are insightful, and her narrative virtuosity was rewarded in 2002 when her biography of Samuel Pepys won the Whitbread Book of the Year. In Young Bysshe Tomalin tells the story of the formative years of the poet Shelley - ...Show more