THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA RADIO 4 DRAMA
The Hand of Ethelberta is not one of Thomas Hardy’s most well known or most loved novels and it’s certainly vastly different both in style and character from popular works like Tess of the ...
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Thomas Hardy’s classic Victorian novel is filmed again
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs Far from the Madding Crowd (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment). Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novel is set in 1870 Dorset. Carey Mulligan’s resourceful and very ...
Unrequited love, lust, murder and sheep-shearing in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (StudioCanal). John Schlesinger’s 1967 film is a very faithful adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic rural melodrama set in the 1860s. ...
Is this version of Hardy’s classic just too far from the original?
Joyce Glasser reviews Far from the Madding Crowd (April 30, 2015) Cert. 12, 113 min. It is almost 50 years since John Schlesinger’s dark, romantic and faithful adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd ...