A History of Far from the Madding Crowd |
If anyone is interested here is a paper I wrote covering some aspects of the history of Far from the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy, one of the great British novelists of the 19th century, created an il...
Posted by Thomas Hardy on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:48:00 PST |
Tess the Musical |
To all of my dear fans, thank you so much for your readership and the interest you have shown in my site. I wanted to let you know that Tess has been adapted in to a musical. Please visit http://...
Posted by Thomas Hardy on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:54:00 PST |
The Mayor of Casterbridge |
I wanted to share something from my recent reading. I don't know if you are familiar with the story of the mayor or not but it begins when he is 21 years old and he is married to Susan and they h...
Posted by Thomas Hardy on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:52:00 PST |
God's Undertaker |
Here is a link to an article in the New Yorker covering Thomas Hardy and a review of a new biography on him written by Claire Tomalin. The biography is to be released on January 18th.
G...
Posted by Thomas Hardy on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:26:00 PST |
An Interesting Aside from the Creator of this Page |
For those of you who are of drinking age, I wanted to share what I found:
A quick search on Google will provide you with links to several importers....
Posted by Thomas Hardy on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:25:00 PST |
Punch .33 January 10th, 1857 |
I've cut this from the Punch.
Posted by Thomas Hardy on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:13:00 PST |
So wild it was when we first settled here. |
Domicilium
It faces west, and round the back and sides High beeches, bending, hang a veil of boughs, And sweep against the roof. Wild honeysucks Climb on the walls, and see...
Posted by Thomas Hardy on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:54:00 PST |
It was a fine day |
I met a man today by the name of Horace Moule, the brother of a friend of mine. He is fifth from the right in the picture I've enclosed. He has set me off on lessons of Greek literature and poetry. I ...
Posted by Thomas Hardy on Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:44:00 PST |
More Mores |
The court hung Martha Browne today. I became bound to witness the event. What a fine figure she showed against the sky as she hung in the misty rain, and how the tight black, silk gown set off h...
Posted by Thomas Hardy on Sat, 08 Oct 2005 03:54:00 PST |
