Product Description: This volume brings together for the first time eight masterful essays on William Faulkner by one of his most eloquent and influential critics. Michael Millgate established himself as a leading authority on Faulkner with the publication of The Achievement of William Faulkner more than thirty years ago...read more

Michael Millgate's classic biography of Thomas Hardy, was first published in 1982. Much new information about Hardy has since become available, often in volumes edited or co-edited by Millgate himself, and many established assumptions have been challenged and revolutionized by scholarly research. In this extensively revised, fully reconsidered, and considerably-expanded new edition Millgate, the world's leading Hardy scholar, draws not only upon these new materials but upon an exceptional understanding of Hardy gained from long immersion in the study of his life and work. Many large and small aspects of Hardy's life are here freshly illuminated, including his family background, his fumbling self-education as a poet, his difficult relations with his first wife and hers with his family, his sexual infatuations, his secret collaborations with aspiring women writers, his clandestine composition of his own official biography, and the memory-invoking techniques by which he sustained his remarkable creativity into extreme old age. Thorough, authoritative and eminently readable, Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited will become the standard life of Hardy for a new generation.

Product Description: Thomas Hardy has generally been viewed as an intensely private figure, shy of publicity and even of people. What the present volume reveals is that Hardy's public utterances, addressed to a wide range of literary, social, and political issues, were far more numerous and various than has previously been imagined...read more

Product Description: It has been said that both of Thomas Hardy's wives were livelier letter writers than he was himself. They were certainly less discreet, especially on the subject of their marital grievances. Michael Millgate has brought together a meticulously edited and fully annotated selection of the letters of Emma and Florence Hardy...read more

Product Description: The testamentary acts of Michael Millgate's title are those strategies of self-protection and self-projection--textual and personal, before and after death--by which authors seek in old age to enhance posterity's view of themselves and their work...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1971 and now for the first time reprinted, Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist has long been recognized as a major - and exceptionally well-written - work of Hardy criticism that also set new standards for Hardy scholarship...read more

Product Description: First published in 1966, Millgate's text begins with an essay on Faulkner's life and career and proceeds to a treatment of each novel in chronological order, a survey of Faulkner's prolific work in the short story and an assessment of Faulkner's achievement as a whole...read more

Product Description: One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography. Since the true circumstances of its composition have been known The Early Life and Later Years of Thomas Hardy, published over the name of Florence Emily Hardy, has frequently been referred to as Hardy's autobiography...read more

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Based on newly discovered material, diaries, notebooks, letters, local records, and newspaper articles, this comprehensive biography presents a balanced view of Hardy as an artist and as a man

Product Description: Winner of the Thomas Hardy Society Book Prize.

Based on newly discovered material, diaries, notebooks, letters, local records, and newspaper articles, this comprehensive biography presents a balanced view of Hardy as an artist and as a man