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Thomas Hardy

Name: Thomas Hardy
Author: James Gibson
ISBN: 9780312225827

by James Gibson

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The many interviews and recollections which James Gibson has gathered together in this book will add greatly to our understanding of Hardy the person and the writer. The result of several years of research, it makes available not only the well-known interviews described by famous writers like Virginia Woolf and Siegfried Sassoon, but also those of more than one hundred other people who wrote down their accounts of meeting with him. The book is fascinating both in what it tells us about Hardy and what we learn in some cases about the interviewer.

About the Author, James Gibson

James Gibson is formerly Principal Lecturer at Christ Church College, Canterbury.

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A retired scholar of Victorian and modern literature in general and of Hardy (1840-1928) in particular, Gibson has assembled not only the well known interviews with the writer by such luminaries as Virginia Woolf, Robert Graves, and T. E. Lawrence, but also accounts of over a hundred lesser known people of their meetings with him. They are arranged in chronological chapters, covering his first 30 years of obscurity, the two decades of fame as a novelist, and the final years of veneration as a poet. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)