Download or read book Talks with Thomas Hardy at Max Gate 1920 1922 written by Thomas Hardy and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1928 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thomas Hardy at Max Gate written by Andrew Norman and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1883, Thomas Hardy, then aged forty-three, returned to Dorchester in his native county of Dorsetshire, together with his wife Emma, in order to find a house. Unable to find a property which suited himself and Emma, Hardy decided to build one, on a plot of land purchased from the estate of The Duchy of Cornwall and situated a mile or so to the east of Dorchester on the road to Wareham. In this house he would write some of his greatest works, including five novels, three collections of short stories, eight collections of poetry, an epic drama, and a play in verse. He would travel with Emma to the Continent and to Ireland, he would be accepted by the highest echelons of London society and into their innermost circles and meet not only the aristocracy, but also the leading literati of the day. Sadly however all was not well in Hardy¿s `Garden of Eden¿ as his marriage to Emma, gradually disintegrated into a meaningless charade. This had profound implications both for his social life, writing, and mental well-being, his overwhelming melancholy being only partially redeemed by his later marriage to Florence Dugdale. The purpose of this book is to pierce the veil of secrecy which Hardy deliberately drew over his life; to decipher the coded messages which his writings contain; to find out why his life was so filled with anguish, an anguish which led to the creation, by him, of some of the finest novels and poems in the English language. Only then is it possible to discover the real Thomas Hardy whose life was played out in the self-designed setting of Max Gate.

Download or read book Max Gate Home of Thomas Hardy written by James Stevens-Cox and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thomas Hardy Remembered written by Martin Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy Remembered assembles some 150 annotated interviews and recollections of Hardy, most of which are being reprinted for the first time. They range from close personal reflections by old friends such as Sir George Douglas, J.M. Barrie, and Edmund Gosse, to fleeting glimpses by strangers who saw Hardy at a London party or at his club. Martin Ray has selected items having the greatest literary or biographical significance, and annotated them with meticulous accuracy and a keen eye for the telling detail. As a result, the volume will be an invaluable resource to scholars who are interested not only in what concerned Hardy personally and professionally, but also in how he was perceived by others. Having these items collected in one volume reveals Hardy's contemporaneous opinions about his own writings and also makes it possible to trace the marked recurrence, over time, of certain preoccupations: ancient families, Hardy's hostility to reviewers, architecture, Roman relics, Wessex folklore and dialect, animal welfare, Napoleon, and hangings. With regard to his literary career, a portrait emerges of Hardy as the scrupulous professional, properly aware of his commercial rights, while at the same time appearing, to some who met him, unconscious of his own genius.

Download or read book Some Recollections written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thomas Hardy Letter written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wessex Project written by Kester Rattenbury and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy's architectural career is not considered a success. Seen usually as a mere prelude to his literary output, it is most often summed up by reference to the 'shockingly' suburban home he built himself at Max Gate. But in this new work, Professor Kester Rattenbury argues the opposite: that far from being incidental, Hardy's architectural thinking is integral to a full understanding of his life's work. This is the first time Hardy's life and legacy have been studied by a fellow architectural writer and critic. Reconstructed from the wealth of little-known drawings, photographs, experimental illustrations and modest built work he produced or oversaw, and an architecturally-biased re-reading of his novels, this book sets out a startling new vision of Thomas Hardy's work, and how it has shaped England in fact and fiction. The Wessex Project exposes the architectural thinking and invention underlying Hardy's novels. It shows how his famous imaginary realm Wessex can be seen as a forerunner of the experimental architectural projects of our own times - in which architects weave together design, description, polemic, and images of both real and imagined spaces, to form highly developed and challenging unbuilt projects, published in books designed to change the way we see the world. The book makes a compelling case for listing Hardy among the greatest of all conceptual architects, as well as recognising him as one of the most influential and active conservationists and architectural critics of all time. This radical new perspective gives Hardy's many readers a chance, at last, to see Wessex as the author himself constructed it: through architectural eyes.

Download or read book Interlopers at the Knap written by Thomas Hardy and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the let...

Download or read book The Early Life of Thomas Hardy 1840 1891 written by Florence Emily Hardy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume (1928) of a fascinating account of Hardy's life, compiled by him in collaboration with his second wife.

Download or read book The Feast of Roses written by Indu Sundaresan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rich historical tapestry...Sundaresan colors the life of a fascinating woman whose female wiles inspired the Taj Mahal" (Booklist). The love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa, begun in the critically praised debut novel The Twentieth Wife, continues in Indu Sundaresan's lush second novel, The Feast of Roses. Here, Mehrunnisa comes into Jahangir's harem as his twentieth and last wife. This time Jahangir has married for love, and members of his court are worried that Mehrunnisa could exert control over their futures. Their concerns are well founded. Mehrunnisa soon becomes the most powerful woman in the Mughal Empire in spite of a formidable rival in the imperial harem who has schemed and plotted against her from the start. She rules from behind the veil, securing her status by forming a junta of sorts with her father, brother, and stepson -- and risking it all, even her daughter, to get what she wants. But she never loses the love of the man who bestows this power upon her....

Download or read book The Later Years of Thomas Hardy 1892 1928 written by Florence Emily Hardy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume (1930) of a fascinating account of Hardy's life, compiled by him in collaboration with his second wife.

Download or read book The Withered Arm written by Thomas Hardy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'She bared her poor curst arm' A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Download or read book The Life of Thomas Hardy 1840 1928 Compiled Largely from Contemporary Notes and Biographical Memoranda as Well as from Oral Information in Conversations Extending Over Many Years written by Florence Emily Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Max Gate written by Damien Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Moments of Vision written by Thomas Hardy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Moments of Vision" from Thomas Hardy. English novelist and poet (1840-1928).

Download or read book Max Gate written by Damien Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: