Thomas Hardy

1 month ago | schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Charles DICKENS |Mary Shelley |George MacDonald |Thomas Hardy

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction. David L. UlinI wanted to start this piece with a reference to a list of prominent writers who have commented that they are finding it increasingly impossible to read deeply. Yet as I sit at our local climbing gym writing this passage, a young girl sits down at the table across from me, cracking open a fat tome: The Unedited Journals of Sylvia Plath. We start to chat, and I ask her how old she is. “Eleven”, she replies.

Jan 8, 2025 | countryandtownhouse.com | Thomas Hardy |Martha Davies

From breathtaking Bailey castles to sprawling celebrity houses, there are plenty of knockout country properties on the market right now – including this picture-perfect Dorset home, which was once frequented by renowned literary figures including Thomas Hardy, Siegfried Sassoon and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Sep 24, 2024 | themobiworld.com | Thomas Hardy

A Neolithic site discovered beneath the home of famed author Thomas Hardy has been granted protection as a scheduled monument. The circular enclosure, nearly 100 metres in diameter, was unearthed under the garden of Max Gate, located in Dorchester, Dorset, and is composed of ditches and pits. Some of these pits house sarsen stones that cover human remains, while others boast walls etched with rare Neolithic spiral designs.

Aug 20, 2024 | bookertalk.com | Decca Aitkenhead |Thomas Hardy |Claire Fuller |Robert Stevenson

I’ve been wrestling with this month’s Spell the Month in Books for three weeks now and it almost defeated me. August’s theme, as set by Jana at Reviews From the Stacks, is water which seemed easy initially. Plenty of scope I thought for variations such as rain and rivers, seas and oceans. just one problem with that train of thought however — there is no letter R in August, nor O. The letter U was also a challenge, doubly so because there are two of the dratted things in August.

Aug 20, 2024 | nairaland.com | Thomas Hardy

What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by Zayttoven: 2:21amSometimes I wonder how I fell in love with reading novels. I presume it was out of sheer curiosity. Although I no longer read novels, I can't help but reminisce on the good ol' days. I've read a lot of novels from authors such as Dante Alighieri, Leo Tolstoy, George R.R. Martin, F.