Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man by Claire TomalinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.5 MbOverview: 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 […]
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire TomalinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.7 MbOverview: Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, travelled to revolutionary France and lived through the Terror and the destruction of the incipient French […]
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire TomalinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 4.2 MbOverview: Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies on her heels; but when she died aged only thirty-four she became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and […]
A Life of My Own: A Biographer’s Life by Claire TomalinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 27 MbOverview: As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life. This enthralling memoir follows her through triumph and tragedy in […]
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire TomalinRequirements: .PDF reader, 31.9mbOverview: At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English—but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did not survive her. Now acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin, author […]