- Hardcover: 672 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford (7 Oct 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0199275653
- ISBN-13: 978-0199275656
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,274,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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...the updated work is likely to be the standard biography for at least another twenty years. (Noah Heringman, Studies in English Literature )
In Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited, Michael Millgate amplifies his much-admired 1982 life of the novelist, drawing on new archival material. This is one of those thick, well-written biographies one can happily lose oneself in. (Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World )
In Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited, Michael Millgate amplifies his much-admired 1982 life of the novelist, drawing on new archival material. This is one of those thick, well-written biographies one can happily lose oneself in. (Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World )
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Michael Millgate's classic biography of Thomas Hardy, great novelist and poet, was first published in 1982. Much new information about Hardy has since become available, often in volumes edited or co-edited by Millgate himself, and many established assumptions have been challenged and revolutionized by scholarly research. In this extensively revised, fully reconsidered, and considerably-expanded new edition Millgate, the world's leading Hardy scholar, draws not only upon these new materials but upon an exceptional understanding of Hardy gained from long immersion in the study of his life and work. Many large and small aspects of Hardy's life are here freshly illuminated, including his family background, his fumbling self-education as a poet, his difficult relations with his first wife and hers with his family, his sexual infatuations, his secret collaborations with aspiring women writers, his clandestine composition of his own official biography, and the memory-invoking techniques by which he sustained his remarkable creativity into extreme old age. Thorough, authoritative and eminently readable, Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited will become the standard life of Hardy for a new generation.
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This book was received in good time and in good order. My wife and I are reading the two biographies side by side and comparing notes!
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30 Nov 2007
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This is not a volume to be passed over. Although Millgate doesn't detail the expansions and revisions to his acclaimed biography of 1982, his learning, refinements, and discriminations make this a new work. Its like will not be found over any horizon you may be looking for--anytime soon.
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