It's Thomas Hardy's Birthday

Posted by Tel Asiado Jun 2, 2008

Great Thinkers Datebook: June 2, 1840.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist and poet, is born today, June 2. His novels, mostly tragic and set in the region of Wessex, include the famous ones made into films like Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

In the 1970s, the BBC commissioned adaptations of stories from his collection the Wessex Tales and also did a mini-series of Hardy's Jude the Obscure, which he published in 1895.

Hardy later concentrated on poetry.

Link to a brief biography of Thomas Hardy.

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