The Revisitation by Thomas Hardy
Story type: TheaterAs I lay awake at night-time In an ancient country barrack known to ancient cannoneers, And recalled the hopes that heralded each s …
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth.
Master John Horseleigh, Knight by Thomas Hardy
Story type: LiteratureIn the earliest and mustiest volume of the Havenpool marriage registers (said the thin-faced gentleman) this entry may still be …
The Duke’s Reappearance – A Family Tradition by Thomas Hardy
Story type: LiteratureAccording to the kinsman who told me the story, Christopher Swetman’s house, on the outskirts of King’s-Hintock village, was in …
A Mere Interlude by Thomas Hardy
Story type: LiteratureCHAPTER IThe traveller in school-books, who vouched in dryest tones for the fidelity to fact of the following narrative, used to …
A Few Crusted Characters by Thomas Hardy
Story type: LiteratureIt is a Saturday afternoon of blue and yellow autumn time, and the scene is the High Street of a well-known market-town. A large …
The Waiting Supper by Thomas Hardy
Story type: LiteratureCHAPTER IWhoever had perceived the yeoman standing on Squire Everard’s lawn in the dusk of that October evening fifty years ago, …