Podcast Episodes featuring Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy's Poetry

In Our Time - January 13, 2022 10:15 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4.7K ratings
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy (1840 -1928) and his commitment to poetry, which he prized far above his novels. In the 1890s, once he had earned enough from his fiction, Hardy stopped writing novels altogether and returned to the poetry he had largely put aside since his twenties....

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Thomas Hardy

Legacy: the Artists Behind the Legends - February 06, 2019 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratings
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet active from the 19th to the early 20th century, best known for works such as Jude the Obscure and Far From the Maddening Crowd. Now, I know when we hear words like England and 19th century, we all start thinking the same thing – more super tight coll...

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Tales to Terrify No 100 Joe Mckinney and Thomas Hardy

Tales to Terrify - December 05, 2013 06:45 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 607 ratings
Coming up: Good evening  0:00:40 The Christmas Room and the Mummers  0:01:18 Poem, “The Oxen” by Thomas Hardy  0:05:27 A few words about Joel Lane  0:06:52 Fiction, “Resurrecting Mindy” by Joe McKinney, narrated by Stephen Kilpatrick  0:09:59 Pleasant dreams  0:45:28  Pertinent URLs for S...

Books written by Thomas Hardy

Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy, Rosemarie Morgan, Shannon Russell

17 Episodes - 433 pages - ★★★★ - 101K ratings

Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy, Suzanne Keen

17 Episodes - 400 pages - ★★★★ - 337 ratings

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy

6 Episodes - 346 pages - ★★★★ - 197 ratings

The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy, Alexander Theroux

1 Episode - 448 pages - ★★★★ - 28.8K ratings

Good Poems for Hard Times
Garrison Keillor, Charles Bukowski, Robert Burns, Hayden Carruth, Raymond Carver, Billy Collins, Noël Coward, Carl Dennis, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Dobyns, Fleur Adcock, John Donne, Rita Dove, Stephen Dunn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Frost, Erica Funkhouser, Donald Hall, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Hardy, Jim Harrison, W.H. Auden, Jennifer Michael Hecht, David Ignatow, John Keats, X.J. Kennedy, Jane Kenyon, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, Kate Light, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Louis MacNeice, Hilaire Belloc, Herman Melville, W.S. Merwin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Howard Nemerov, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Grace Paley, Lawrence Raab, Kenneth Rexroth, Wendell Berry, Carl Sandburg, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Philip Booth, Virginia Hamilton Adair, Liesl Mueller

344 pages - ★★★★ - 2.61K ratings

The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved & The Well-Beloved
Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham

416 pages - ★★★★ - 120 ratings

Tess Of The D'urbervilles A Pure Woman
Thomas Hardy

263 pages - ★★★★ - 10 ratings