The Thomas Hardy Page
Major Works
Available in Oxford World's Classics and Penguin editions. The handiest collection of the short stories is the Collected Short Stories. Introduction by Desmond Hawkins. Macmillan, 1988.
Fiction
Desperate Remedies ( 1871 ).
Under the Greenwood Tree ( 1872 ).
A Pair of Blue Eyes. ( 1873 ).
Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1874 ). On Line. The Norton Critical Edition is edited by Robert C. Schweik.
The Hand of Ethelberta ( 1875 ).
Return of the Native ( 1878 ). On Line. The Norton Critical Edition is edited by James Gindin.
The Trumpet-Major ( 1880 ).
The Laodicean ( 1881 ).
Two on a Tower ( 1882 ).
The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1885 ). On Line. The Norton Critical Edition is edited by James K. Robinson.
The Woodlanders ( 1887 ).
Tess of the D'Urbervilles ( 1891 ). On Line. The Norton Critical Edition (3rd) is edited by Scott Elledge.
Jude the Obscure ( 1895 ). On Line. The Norton Critical Edition is edited by Norman Page.
Poetry. It will be seen that Hardy's literary career may be divided into two parts.
Wessex Poems ( 1898 ). On Line
Poems of the Past and Present ( 1901 ).
The Dynasts ( 1904-08 ).
Time's Laughingstock ( 1909 ).
Satires of Circustance ( 1914 ).
Moments of Vision ( 1917 ).
Late Lyrics and Earlier ( 1922 ).
Winter Words ( 1928 ).
Sixteen Poems On Line from U of Toronto.
Wessex Poems and Other Verses from The Poet's Corner.
About Hardy
Hugh Brasnett, Thomas Hardy: A Pictorial Guide. Lodge Copse Press, 1990. Photographs of scenes described in Hardy's novels and poems.
Anne-Marie Edwards, In the Steps of Thomas Hardy. Countryside Books, 1989. Photographs and maps.
Thomas Hardy, Selected Letters. Edited by Michael Millgate. Oxford, 1990. A handy selection from the seven-volume Collected Letters edited by Richard Little Purdy and Professor Millgate.
Thomas Hardy, The Life and Works of Thomas Hardy. Edited by Michael Millgate. Macmillan, 1989. This work in another form was originally to have been published under the name of Hardy's second wife Florence. It was to be Hardy's own official biography of himself.
Hermann Lea, Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Macmillan, 1913. Old photographs of places that will not come again.
Michael Millgate, Thomas Hardy: A Biography. Oxford, 1987. The standard biography.
F. B. Pinion, A Thomas Hardy Dictionary. Macmillan, 1989.
Denys Kay-Robinson, The Landscape of Thomas Hardy. With photographs by Simon McBride. Webb and Bower, 1984. Color and black-and-white photographs and maps.
Merryn Williams, A Preface to Thomas Hardy. Longman, 1976.
Thomas Hardy from Bibliomania--biography, texts.
Thomas Hardy from The Victorian Web.
Thomas Hardy Criticism from Internet Public Library.
Thomas Hardy Miscellany. Photographs, links, articles by Hardy readers.
The Thomas Hardy Online Society. Texts for downloading, critiques, a free downloadable zipped multimedia pocket guide to Hardy.
Thomas Hardy Society (U.K.).
The Thomas Hardy Society of Japan Numerous Links.
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