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Thomas Hardy: Interviews and Recollections (Interviews & recollections)
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Description for Thomas Hardy: Interviews and Recollections (Interviews & recollections)
Paperback. This volume is a selection of recollections on Thomas Hardy by his friends and fellow writers including Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon. It should be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about Hardy's life, thoughts and writings. Editor(s): Gibson, James. Series: Interviews & Recollections. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
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 Literature. Among them were Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon, Gustav Holst, T.E. Lawrence, H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves, and very many more. Interviews and Recollections is a selection of the most interesting and important of the many hundreds of recollections which have been gathered together by the Editor over many years. It ... Read more
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 Literature. Among them were Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon, Gustav Holst, T.E. Lawrence, H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves, and very many more. Interviews and Recollections is a selection of the most interesting and important of the many hundreds of recollections which have been gathered together by the Editor over many years. It ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Interviews & Recollections
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333247884
SKU
V9780333247884
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99-15
About N/A
JAMES GIBSON is semi-retired but still lecturing, writing and chairing The Hardy Society. He was Head of the Department of English at Dulwich College (1949-1962) and Christ Church College, Canterbury (1962-1982). He is Honorary Vice President and Chairman of the Hardy Society and Honorary Vice President of the Betjeman Society. He was presented by fellow Hardy scholars with festschrift 1994. ... Read more
Reviews for Thomas Hardy: Interviews and Recollections (Interviews & recollections)
'...a wealth of materials gathered from a very broad range of writers who had contact wth Hardy...' - Years Work in English Studies 'An absorbing collection...meticulously compiled.' - John Bayley, Times Literary Supplement 'James Gibson has edited a fascinating collection of the reminiscences of those who knew, or professed to know, Thomas Hardy.' - Raymond Carr, The Spectator ... Read more