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100 1 $aPite, Ralph.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93102559
245 10 $aThomas Hardy :$bthe guarded life /$cRalph Pite.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c2007.
300 $avii, 522 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps, portraits ;$c25 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: London : Picador, 2006.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [501]-505) and index.
520 1 $a"Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life challenges long-accepted views of the author: Was his early life devoted to his preparation for becoming a writer, or was architecture more important to Hardy than he later acknowledged? Was his poetry far dearer to his heart than the novels? Did his first wife, Emma, trick him into an unwanted marriage? And what of Florence, his second wife, who has been caricatured in her conflicted and passionate feelings for him? Pite examines the relationships and contexts that shaped Hardy most - the women in his life, his friends and mentors, social and family pressures, career structures of his day, the Devonshire landscape - and offers new insight into the man who, until now, was hidden behind an opaque public image he helped to create." "Ralph Pite tracks Hardy through his hopes, successes, and setbacks. He discovers the sudden changes of plan in Hardy's life, the "desperate remedies" in crises, and the shifts in identity that came as he changed professions, moved from place to place, and achieved greater fame. It is the first biography to disrupt the serene public image that Hardy himself created during his long old age, uncovering instead a man who was more passionate and impulsive than his reputation suggests, both more driven and more vulnerable."--BOOK JACKET.
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