Thomas Hardy - The Guarded Life - Pite, Ralph

The Guarded Life challenges some of the long-held views of Thomas Hardy. Did he spend all his early life in preparation for his career as a writer. Did his novels really come a distant second to his poetry in his heart? In his personal life, did his first wife, Emma Hardy, really trick him into marriage and was she the ambitious women her enemies have painted her as being? And what of Florence, his second wife, who has so often been caricatured in her conflicted and passionate feelings for Hardy? By examining the relationships and contexts that shaped Hardy, most The Guarded Life reveals the personality and emotional life of a public figure who hasdespite his fameremained largely obscure.

Hardcover. English. Trans-Atlantic Publications, Incorporated. 2006. ISBN: 9780330481861. 400 pp. Good with dw. Book No: 55842