The Return of the Native Resources
Websites
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A veritable Thomas Hardy clubhouse, with lots of links, neat articles, and handy lists of things like his published works.
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VictorianWeb's Hardy overview, with articles divided up by themes and categories, like "Economic Contexts" and "Gender Matters."
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Fun website with "this day in literary history" articles. It's worth checking out the whole site, and they have a handful of cool articles on Hardy that link him to some other famous writers, like Thomas Gray.
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List of links to academic articles and websites about Hardy and his work.
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Cool article about Hardy's poetry and what he was up to later in his long life. Plus some juicy gossip about his marriage – can't go wrong with that.
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Hardy was a big fan of music in his novels and his poetry actually inspired a lot of composers later on – you can read all about it here.
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As always, PBS's websites are filled with cool facts, articles, and more links than you can shake a stick at. And this is no exception. Get your Hardy groove on here.
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Cool project at Kenyon College where they profile the literature and authors of Southwest England, including Hardy's The Return of the Native.
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Article, with lots of links, about Egdon Heath, Hardy's fictional landscape, and the musical score by Gustav Holst.
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Article on the nineteenth-century literary movements, with a focus on French realism.
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Very detailed article about the philosophy of Naturalism.
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All about Keats and the Romantic movement.
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Great interactive timelines of Hardy's life and works, with lots of pictures and links.
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Learn all about Hardy's fictional country of Wessex – this site includes info about his novels, maps, and other archival materials.
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Very cool organization, inspired by Hardy, that's trying to preserve the culture and the natural landscape of Dorset, Hardy's actual home county in England.
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Information about Hardy and his burial site (plus pictures of it!) are on this website, where you can find the grave of just about anyone famous.
Movie or TV Productions
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IMDb page for the 1994 adaptation, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Clive Owen.
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Article and review of a BBC documentary on Thomas Hardy, which aired in 2008.
Video
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A very recent BBC news piece (video and article) about how a museum in Dorset, Hardy's home county, got a really cool collection of Hardy materials.
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A clip from of The Mummers performing in the 1994 movie adaptation.
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There's a band called Egdon Heath and they have songs on YouTube. Check it out!
Audio
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A tonal poem by Gustav Holst, inspired by Hardy and composed in 1927.
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Excerpt of Alan Rickman's (a.k.a. Professor Snape's) audiobook version of The Return of the Native – nature descriptions never sounded so good. There's also a link of where you can find out more about this audiobook version.
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Hilarious Monty Python sketch, in which a crowd gathers to watch Hardy write The Return of the Native and a radio commentator tells us all about it.
Images
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These are amazing – go check them out. Seriously, do it. These are all of the original illustrations published with The Return of the Native when it was first serialized in Belgravia magazine in 1878.
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Archival photograph from the 1920 anniversary edition of The Return of the Native.
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A painting of Thomas Hardy, by Reginald Eves.
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A huge gallery with images of places important to Hardy in his life and work. Two thumbs up from us!
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Nice photographs of landscapes that are described in Hardy's work.
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Cool album of Hardy, with photographs of him throughout his life, including one of him and his bicycle. Yes – it's kind of awesome.