{"product_id":"9780143112877","title":"Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A masterful portrait\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual and religious conventions of his time in his novels and then abandoned fiction to reestablish himself as a great twentieth-century lyric poet. In this acclaimed new biography, Claire Tomalin, one of today's preeminent literary biographers, investigates this beloved writer and reveals a figure as rich and complex as his tremendous legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022633124080,"sku":"9780143112877","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143112877_p0.jpg?v=1769911303","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143112877","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}