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A FAMOUS HOME

... A FAMOUS HOME Here is the charming house where Thomas Hardy lived at Higher Bockhampton in his beloved Wessex country. All men, whether eminent or lowly, appreciate the security of home-ownership and thousands obtain it with the help of the HALIFAX BUILDING ...

Published: Friday 04 August 1950
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 53 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

THE TREE OF MAN a great contemporary novel of Australia by Patrick White (Ready today, 512 pages, 18/- net) The

... The Tree of Man is outstanding to the contemporary reader, for its epic quality, comparable in its conception and tone to Thomas Hardy, and in its vitality and realism to D. H. Lawrence. A majestic and impressive work of genuine art that digs more deeply ...

Published: Friday 27 April 1956
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 83 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

pleased to know that Kipling had taken what 'e thought 'e might require . But, when depending on others,

... contains the most notorious of his numerous puns— the bezant is hard, ay, and black (a reference to Sir Walter Besant, Thomas Hardy and the almost forgotten William Black). In this poem will be found the line: Did ever you hear of a Yankee brig that rifled ...

Published: Friday 28 November 1952
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

TRUTH

... TRUTH was at Woolbridge Manor, Wool, a splendid sixteenth century house which Thomas Hardy chose as the setting for his novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. As the Manor is run in connexion with a farm, the fare should be ample and fortifying. Three miles ...

Published: Friday 05 June 1953
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 241 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

TR $

... BALLET By EDWIN BIRCH THEATRE By BERNARD LEVIN OPERA By Nob. GOODWIN THE HUBERT PHILLIPS PUZZLE PAGE ON BOOKS AND PEOPLE THOMAS HARDY By B. IFOR EVANS HISTORY OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-45, Vol. I By Air Marshal Sir PHILIP JOUBERT 150 MAPS AND THEIR MAKERS ...

Published: Friday 29 January 1954
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Extract from a diary

... 'a Person of Honour', which had belonged to the poet Wordsworth and contained his signature, and afterwards was given to Thomas Hardy in 1917. The other was a most interesting but maudlin letter from Oscar Wilde to Sir George Alexander the actor, talking ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1953
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

and Private Shaw : his

... in Shaw; hence his illimitable inferiority to Shakespeare, his considerable inferiority to such a contemporary of his as Thomas Hardy. Fabian Peter Pan This perpetual play-acting made it difficult for Shaw to tell what was sense and what was nonsense. There ...

Published: Friday 16 October 1953
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 437 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Art

... anonymous working men with a suggestion of the rhythm, continuity and laboriousness of their days : if English painting has its Thomas Hardy, I would say that Herman is his name. Among the water colours, an Epstein (Epping Forest) and several Keith Vaughans (figures) ...

Published: Friday 23 December 1955
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 470 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

On books and people

... return to poetry in The Dynasts and compose a work for which, in a way, his whole life was a preparation? Miss Hardy recalls how, when Thomas Hardy's father was dying, almost his last remark was to ask 'for water fresh drawn from the well - which was brought ...

Published: Friday 29 January 1954
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 980 | Page: 21 | Tags: none