
Hardy was an unknown architect in 1870, a famous novelist by 1895, and acknowledged as a great novelist, poet and epic-dramatist when he died in 1928. With fame came a never-ending stream of friends and writers anxious to record their impressions of the Grand Old Man of English...

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...