Based on contemporary notes, letters, diaries, and biographical memoranda, as well as from oral information in conversations extending over many years.

The second volume (1930) of a fascinating account of Hardy's life, compiled by him in collaboration with his second wife.

Thomas Hardy's fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most influential of th

One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography