Selected Letters

This selection of more than three hundred letters, drawn from the acclaimed seven-volume Clarendon edition of the letters of Thomas Hardy, edited by Michael Millgate and Richard L. Purdy, provides invaluable glimpses into the writer's life. There is correspondence with his family, with his two wives, with close friends, and with many contemporary literary figures, including Walter de la Mare, Ezra Pound, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Virginia Woolf. Full and immediately accessible annotation and editorial commentary places letters within the broader context of Hardy's life and literary career.