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  • Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), British author and poet Jean-Luc?†   (source)
  • He was a Thomas Hardy fan, too, and at my birth had wanted to name me Arabella, which my mother said sounded like something you'd better hope not to get during pregnancy.†   (source)
  • Our conversation ebbs and flows in majestic waves like the sea—Hart Crane, sex, Thomas Hardy, sex, Flaubert, sex, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, sex, Huckleberry Finn, sex.†   (source)
  • He thought of Thomas Hardy.†   (source)
  • He would also help me begin my Master's thesis on Thomas Hardy.†   (source)
  • I read The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, and Romeo and Juliet and Julius—†   (source)
  • Take old Eustacia Vye, in The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.†   (source)
  • Thomas Hardy did the same thing with his mythic Wessex, the southwest corner of England—Devon and Dorset and Wiltshire.†   (source)
  • I wrote Owen that I had selected Thomas Hardy as the subject for my Master's thesis; I doubt he was surprised.†   (source)
  • Sometimes writers are more up front about that than others, openly showing, as John Fowles does in The French Lieutenant's Woman, that he's drawing on the tradition of the Victorian novel, and on the works of Thomas Hardy and Henry James in particular.†   (source)
  • Earning my fifty "points" was easy for me; I had a B.A. cum laude, and a Master's degree in English—with Owen Meany's help, I'd written my Master's thesis on Thomas Hardy.†   (source)
  • Thomas Hardy, a considerably better Victorian writer than Edward B.-L., has a delightful story called "The Three Strangers" (1883) in which a condemned man (escaped), a hangman, and the escapee's brother all converge on a shepherd's house during a christening party.†   (source)
  • THOMAS HARDY MAY BORE YOU BUT HE'S VERY EASY TO UNDERSTAND—HE'S OBVIOUS, HE TELLS YOU EVERYTHING YOU HAVE TO KNOW" "He tells me more than I want to know!"†   (source)
  • Whenever I think of Owen Meany's medal for heroism, I'm reminded of Thomas Hardy's diary entry in 1882—Owen showed it to me, that little bit about "living in a world where nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently."†   (source)
  • And last of all I remembered that Owen Meany and I first read Tess of the d'Urbervilles in our tenth-grade year at Gravesend Academy; we were in Mr. Early's English class—it was the winter term of 1960—and I was struggling with Thomas Hardy to the point of tears.†   (source)
  • If someone ever presumed to teach Charles Dickens or Thomas Hardy or Robertson Davies to my Bishop Strachan students with the same, shallow, superficial understanding that I'm sure I possess of world affairs—or, even, American wrongdoing—I would be outraged.†   (source)
  • SinclairLewis, Sherwood Anderson, Dostoevski, George Moore, Gustave Flaubert, Maupassant, Tolstoy, Frank Harris, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, Arnold Bennett, Stephen Crane, Zola, Norris, Gorky, Bergson, Ibsen, Balzac, Bernard Shaw, Dumas, Poe, Thomas Mann, 0.†   (source)
  • THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE by Thomas Hardy 1.†   (source)
  • TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES — THOMAS HARDY Phase the First: The Maiden I On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor.†   (source)
  • JUDE THE OBSCURE — Thomas Hardy Part First AT MARYGREEN "Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes.†   (source)
  • In those days only one other book seemed to offer so powerful a revelation, and that was Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.†   (source)
  • FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD by THOMAS HARDY PREFACE In reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of "Far from the Madding Crowd," as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word "Wessex" from the pages of early English history, and give it a fictitious significance as the existing name of the district once included in that extinct kingdom.†   (source)
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