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 ...

Like the author’s previous popular biographies ... Hardy was the oldest of four children of a stonemason and builder, also named Thomas Hardy, and a former domestic servant, Jemima Hand.

On 16th January 1928 the ashes of the poet and writer Thomas Hardy were buried in Poets ... Far from the Madding Crowd was Hardy's first major novel and made him famous. Many other novels, poems and ...

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.