Q&A: Author Allison Hoover Bartlett on the curious psyche of a rare-book thief Nov 8, 2009
He built a veritable library of stolen books - first editions of children s classics; autographed copies of great novels such as Thomas Hardy s Mayor of Casterbridge and Ralph Ellison s Invisible Man. The extent of his thefts, and the whereabouts of many books, is still not fully known. (Boston Globe)
Book Mill turns 10 Oct 17, 2009
"Far From the Maddening Crowd" by Thomas Hardy There were people who were completely loving that book and there were others who felt they couldn t waste any more of their life on Thomas Hardy. Late in 1999, Jan Rosenberg joined the new book group at Maynard's public library. (Beacon Villager, MA)
High schools diversify their literature Oct 11, 2009
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Qualifying Ancestors for Witch Soci... Oct 10, 2009
H-I: Mary Hale, Sarah (Noyes) Hale, (male) Hales, Mary Hall, Ralph Hall, William Ham, William Harding, Thomas Hardy, Catherine Harrison, Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Hart, Hannah Harvey, Mary (Staples) Harvey, Candy (slave of Margaret Hawkes), Margaret Hawkes, Sarah Hawkes, Jane Hawkins, Anne (Bellingham) Hibbins, Dorcas (Galley) Hoar, Abigail Hobbs, Deliverance Hobbs, William Hobbs, Mary Holman, Winifred Holman, Mrs. Holmes, John Howard, Elizabeth (Jackson) Howe, Frances Hutchins, Anne (Marbury)... (Suite101.com)
Count Down to a Wedding, Part 6: And They All Lived ... Aug 14, 2009
But Thomas Hardy loomswe have had some difficult times in our relationship. How can I deny that we will have difficult times in our marriage, even if I don't like the idea. (Slate)
To know 'The Girl Who Played With Fire' is to love her Jul 28, 2009
Like Thomas Hardy with his Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Larsson makes the reader love and worry about his heroine as though she were real. It's almost unnerving. (USA Today -- Life)
Rebecca Solnit on writing and wanderlust Jul 24, 2009
A: A Thomas Hardy novel, "The Woodlanders," which is not one of his great ones but I've already read all of the great ones, damn it. Q: Last vacation. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Karen Basta enjoys the river, Rand Park Jul 23, 2009
Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy was a great book we had to read in high school. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is a great story that I read a few years ago. (Keokuk Daily Gate City, IO)
Lucky Country Jul 21, 2009
They're dying of hunger out in the forest and they talk like characters from Thomas Hardy. "The land here, it speaks . . . you just . . . listen," says Nat, in one of the film's sillier lines. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Korea change Jul 5, 2009
Briton Peter Ward, of brewing company Thomas Hardy Brewing and Packaging, bought the plant and sold it to the North Koreans through a German agent. He remembers the deal vividly. (BBC News -- UK)
Unplugged: Rohit Bal Jun 28, 2009
- Loves reading Catch 22 by Joseph Heller; favourite authors are Paulo Coelho and Thomas Hardy. - His stress busters are his two boxers father-daughter duo Duffy and Scarlet. (India Times, India)
U. of Ill. releases e-mails about clout admissions Jun 26, 2009
"This was strictly a matter of identifying some e-mails that hadn't been brought forward previously," University of Illinois spokesman Thomas Hardy said of the documents' release. The university turned them over to the governor's commission investigating the matter. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
'Clout list' fallout: U of I president doesn't want trustees pressured May 30, 2009
The Category I list typically has more than 100 people each year whose applications legislators and trustees have been asked to check on by constituents, typically parents or other relatives, said Illinois spokesman Thomas Hardy. This year, there are about 160 on the list. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Get Sexual, Write Sensual Apr 28, 2009
Some of the best love scenes were written by classic writers like Thomas Hardy and D.H. Laurence, who used vivid imagey, metaphor and powerful evokative verbs to arouse the emotions of the reader--without ever describing the sexual act. Using the POV of the omniscient voice in his 1891 novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", Thomas Hardy evokes powerful images of sexuality in a simple bucolic scene of Southwest England: "Amid the oozing fatness and warm ferments of Frome Vale, at the season when the... (Suite101.com)
Bobby West Alford, 87, retired English teacher Apr 19, 2009
Maybe that s why one of Mrs. Alford s favorite authors was Thomas Hardy, who certainly knew a thing or two about the shadowy landscape of the soul. She committed lengthy passages of poetry and prose to memory, then whipped them out at just the right moment to make her point. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Valentine’s Day a good night for a flick Feb 14, 2009
Roman Holiday, a superior entry starring Audrey Hepburn as a cloistered modern princess falling in love with journalist Gregory Peck; Breakfast at Tiffany s, a film that s always good for couples seeking that warm and fuzzy feeling; The English Patient, a full-fledged romantic drama, winner of numerous Academy Awards, including Best Picture; Far From the Madding Crowd (based on the Thomas Hardy novel); The French Lieutenant s Woman, a visually stunning film with Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Silences by Tillie Olsen Feb 8, 2009
She writes, "The very great have known such silences - Thomas Hardy, Melville, Rimbaud, Gerard Manley Hopkins." She relates the problem to the average writer, which helps the writer feel she or he is not alone when suffering from writer's block. Authors like Thomas Hardy experienced long and painful pauses in their writing. (Suite101.com)
