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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 ...

Some macabre and melancholic influences during his early years shaped the character and writing of Dorset's Thomas Hardy ...

Thomas (Tom) Hardy, passed on April 5, 2025. Tom was born in New Kensington, PA to Elizabeth Tooma and Abraham Hardy on April 15, 1937, was instantly smothered with love by his adoring Syrian ...

HARDY IN AMERICA (321 pp.)—Carl J. Weber—Colby College Press ($5). Thomas Hardy never set foot on U.S. soil, doubtless never dreamed of a special immortality in the state of Maine. But Colby College, ...