Claire Tomalin
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2012.
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Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep, and he was 45, the most lionized writer in England. Out of their meeting came a love affair that lasted thirteen years and destroyed Dickens's marriage while effacing Nelly Ternan from the public record.
In this remarkable work of biography and scholarly reconstruction, the acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft,...
In this remarkable work of biography and scholarly reconstruction, the acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft,...
2) Thomas Hardy
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2007
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Whitbread Award winner Claire Tomalin's seminal biography of the enigmatic novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. Today Thomas Hardy is best known for creating the great Wessex landscape as the backdrop to his rural stories, starting with Far from the Madding Crowd, and making them classics. But his true legacy is that of a progressive thinker. When he published Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure late in his career, Hardy explored a very different...
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The tumultuous life of England's greatest novelist, beautifully rendered by an unparalleled literary biographer. "Charles Dickens: A Life" gives full measure to Dickens' heroic stature--his huge virtues both as a writer and as a human being--while observing his failings in both respects with an unblinking eye.
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[Publisher not identified]
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[2014]
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Nelly, a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.
