EAN: 9780008322267

HARDY WOMEN - PAULA BYRNE KARTONIERT (TB)

A Book of the Year in The Times  Guardian  Independent  New Statesman  Bookseller and at
Waterstones 'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is
one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the
minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most
memorable and modern female characters in literature had such troubled relationships with real
women? In this highly innovative book  acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne re-examines Hardy's
life through the eyes of the women who made him - mother  sisters  girlfriends  wives  muses.
The story veers from shocking scenes such as his obsession with the sight of a woman hanged  to
poignant vignettes of unfulfilled passion  to fascinating details of working women's lives in
the nineteenth century. Hardy Women is the story of how the magnificent fictional women he
invented would not have been possible without the hardship and hardiness of the real ones who
shaped his passions and his imagination. It is only through understanding and witnessing these
hardy women that we can truly enter the heart of this great novelist and poet.

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