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Eclipse of the Mourning Star is a powerfully emotional coming-of-age memoir, equal parts gutting and humorous in its recounting of murder, racial healing, glamour, romance, and even black holes. It begins when Robert Eujean Ogden’s sister is stabbed to death on his eleventh birthday. Later in life, his mother dies in what Robert originally thought was an accident. Later still, he deals with the loss of his father from an aggressive cancer, and the death of his brother. Through it all, the book conveys that laughter is a potent medicine, but love is the cure.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of At A Lunar Eclipse by Thomas Hardy. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 27, 2019. ------ While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as ...