Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner

by Mark Ford

Because Thomas Hardy is so closely associated with the rural Wessex of his novels, stories, and poems, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner. Focusing on the formative five years in his early twenties when Hardy lived in the city, but also on his subsequent movement back and forth between Dorset and the capital, Mark Ford shows that the Dorset-London axis is critical to an understanding of his identity as a man and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067473789X
• ISBN13: 9780674737891
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"