THOMAS HARDY: THE TIME-TORN MAN
Book ID/图书代码： 03635007B18160
English Summary/英文概要： Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraordinary: from the poverty of rural Dorset he went on to become the Grand Old Man of English life and letters, his last resting place in Westminster Abbey. This seminal biography, by our leading biographer, covers Hardy’s illegitimate birth, his rural upbringing, his escape to London in the 1860s, his marriages, his status as a bestselling novelist, and in later life, his supreme achievements as a poet.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 托馬斯·哈代（Thomas Hardy，1840-1928）英國作家。生於農村的沒落貴族家庭。1861年在倫敦學建築工程，並從事文學、哲學和神學的研究。當過幾年建築師後，開始致力文學創作。他的小說多以農村生活為背景，對資本主義社會的文明和道德作了深刻的揭露和批判，但帶有悲觀情緒和宿命論色彩。他的經典名著為《遠離塵囂》、《無名的裘德》和《黛絲姑娘》等等。
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About the Author/作者介绍： 活現人物傳記的高手：克萊爾·托馬林
代表作傳記：渥斯頓克雷福特，珍奧斯汀，曼斯菲爾德
作者克萊爾·托馬林 (Claire Tomalin)出生於1933年，大學畢業後在出版社工作，隨後在《新政治家》週刊和《週日泰晤士報》擔任文學線編輯。目前是﹝國立肖像畫陳列館﹞董事，﹝英國皇家學會﹞研究員，﹝英國筆會﹞的副會長。
托馬林是非常知名的傳記作家，在她筆下的瑪莉·渥斯頓克雷福特(Mary Wollstonecraft)、珍奧斯汀 (Jane Austen)、曼斯菲爾德(Katherine Mansfield)的傳記活靈活現，讓她成為英國權威性傳記作家。
她筆下的傳記得到許多獎項：
(1990)The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
*布萊克小說紀念獎傳記獎James Tait Black Memorial Prize
* NCR Book Award非文學獎(現稱山繆強森非文學獎)
*英國霍桑登文學獎
(2002) Samuel Pepys
* Samuel Pepys Award
* Whitbread Book of the Year award (現稱柯斯達獎)
(2006) Thomas Hardy
* 入圍英國圖書大獎年度傳記British Book Awards Biography of the Year
Biographer Claire Tomalin was born in London in 1933. After graduating from Newnham College, Cambridge, she worked in publishing for Heinemann, Hutchinson and Cape before switching to journalism, becoming literary editor of both the New Statesman magazine and the Sunday Times newspaper. She is a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London and the Wordsworth Trust, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Vice-President of English PEN.
Claire Tomalin is the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Katherine Mansfield and Jane Austen. Her account of Charles Dickens’ relationship with the actress Nelly Ternan, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, was published in 1990 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography), the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction and the Hawthornden Prize. It was followed by Mrs Jordan’s Profession (1994), a biography of the actress Dora Jordan, consort to William IV.
Her play The Winter Wife (1991) is based on her own biography of Katherine Mansfield, and she edited the first edition of a previously undiscovered manuscript by Mary Shelley, Maurice, or the Fisher’s Cot, first published in 1998. A collection of book reviews and journalism, Several Strangers: Writing from Three Decades, was published in 1999.
Claire Tomalin lives in London with her husband, the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn. Her biography of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys (2002) won the the Samuel Pepys Award, and the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year award. Her most recent book is Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (2006), shortlisted for the British Book Awards Biography of the Year.
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