The Monty Python sketch of Thomas Hardy writing “The Return of the Native” takes place inside a packed soccer stadium with an announcer providing play-by-play analysis of the author’s ...

Paula Byrne’s hefty biography, “Hardy Women,” considers the British poet and novelist Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) from the standpoint of the strong women who influenced him. The book’s ...

The last of Thomas Hardy's novels, a tale of class, education, religion and marriage featuring a young working-class man who dreams of being a scholar. Stars Michael Pennington and Elizabeth Garvie.

On 16th January 1928 the ashes of the poet and writer Thomas Hardy were buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, immediately to the north of the grave of Charles Dickens. But his heart is buried ...

Cultural links between architecture and literature are manifold, and often alluded to in passing by architects and writers, yet there has been no in-depth systematic enquiry into this important ...