The Thomas Hardy Soceity of Japan is an academic and literary society founded in 1957 to promote Hardy scholarship. Each year in October or November the THSJ sponsors its convention and also publishes an annual journal and biannual newsletters. The Society is open to anyone interested in his life and writings. New members are welcome to our growing and evolving Society. Hardy's Cottage This cottage in Higher Bockhampton near Dorchester in Dorset was Thomas Hardy's home from his birth in 1840 until his move to London in 1860. He then returned to the cottage to write Under the Greenwood Tree(1872) and Far From the Madding Crowd(1874). Most of Hardy's writing was done in a small upstairs room with a window seat. "Improved and enlarged (by his father), the building had some claims to be called a 'house'―even though its very picturesqueness has doomed it to remain a 'cottage'."(Michael Millgate) The Return of the Native Under the Greenwood Tree The Woodlanders The Mayor of Casterbridge Far from the Madding Crowd Jude the Obscure Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1998)
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"The business of the poet and novelist is to show sorriness underlying the grandest things, and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things."