Dr. Ronald D. Morrison, professor of English at Morehead State University, has published a new book "Thomas Hardy: A Companion to the Novels." The volume appears in the McFarland Companions to 19th ...

Gyles Brandreth explores the landscape that influenced the author and poet Thomas Hardy. Gyles Brandreth explores the landscape that influenced the author and poet Thomas Hardy. Hardy lived most of ...

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 subtitle specifies ...

THOMAS HARDY (286 pp.)—Edmund Blunden—Macmillan ($3). HARDY AND THE LADY FROM MADISON SQUARE (264 pp.)—Carl J. Weber—Colby ($5). In the 18903 Thomas Hardy was at the summit of his novelist’s career.

At a particularly low moment in Thomas Hardy’s bitter, furious novel “Jude the Obscure” (1895), the narrator reflects on young Jude’s friendless isolation. “Somebody might have come along that way who ...