Author:Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

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British novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement
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Thomas Hardy

Novels

The year given is the year of first publication in book form.

• Desperate Remedies (1871)
• Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)
• A Pair Of Blue Eyes (1873) (Commons file)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) vol I (transcription project); vol II (transcription project)
• The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)
• The Return of the Native (1878)
• The Trumpet-Major (1880)
• A Laodicean (1881)
• Two On A Tower (1882)
• The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid (1884)
• The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
• The Woodlanders (1887)
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
• Jude the Obscure (1896)
• The Well-Beloved (1897)

Stories

Story collections

• Wessex Tales (1888)
• Three Notable Stories (1890)
• A Group of Noble Dames (1891)
• Life's Little Ironies
• A Changed Man and Other Tales (1913)

Individual stories

• A Group of Noble Dames (1891)
  • The First Countess of Wessex
  • Barbara of the House of Grebe
  • The Marchioness of Stonehenge
  • Lady Mottisfont
  • The Lady Icenway
  • Squire Petrick’s Lady
  • Anna, Lady Baxby
  • The Lady Penelope
  • The Duchess Of Hamptonshire
  • The Honourable Laura
• Life's Little Ironies
• "The Distracted Preacher"
• "Fellow-Townsmen"
• "The Fiddler of the Reels" in Scribner's Magazine, May 1893 (Included in Life's Little Ironies, 1894)
• "The Grave By The Handpost"
• "Interlopers at the Knap"
• "An Imaginative Woman"
• "An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress," 1878, as serialised in Littell's Living Age
• "A Mere Interlude" in The London Magazine, Vol 10, 1903
• "Old Mrs Chundle"
• "On the Western Circuit" in English Illustrated, Vol 9(?), 1891-92
• "The Three Strangers"
• "The Withered Arm"

Poetry

Poetry collections

• Wessex Poems (1898)
• Poems of the Past and the Present (1902)
• Time's Laughingstocks (1909)
• Satires of Circumstance (1914)

Individual poems

• "The Abbey Mason" in Harper's Magazine, 1912
• After a Journey
• At Castle Boterel
• The Blinded Bird
• "Channel Firing", 1914
• Cry of the Homeless
• "The Darkling Thrush", 1900
• Friends Beyond
• The Going
• "The Going of the Battery, Wives' Lament", 1899
• Hap
• The Haunter
• His Visitor
• In a Eweleaze Near Weatherbury
• In a Wood
• "The Man He Killed", ?
• Nature's Questioning
• Neutral Tones
• "Night in a Suburb (Near Tooting common)" in Harper's Magazine, Dec 1911
• Rain on a Grave
• "The Satin Shoes. A quiet tragedy", in Harper's Magazine, Jan 1910
• Satires of Circumstance
• "A Trampwoman's Tragedy" (1903)
• "The Two Rosalinds" in Collier's, Mar 20, 1909
• The Walk
• "A Wife In London", December 1899
• "Weathers", ?
• Without Ceremony
• Your Last Drive

Anthologized

• From A Treasury of War Poetry, ... 1914-1919 (1917):
  • "Men who March away", p. 131; "In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'", p. 132; "Then and Now", p. 133; "Before Marching, and After", p. 389.
• "The Oxen", The Year's at the Spring, 1920.

Plays

• The Three Wayfarers (1893)
• The Dynasts (1903, 1906, 1908)

Works about Hardy

• "Hardy, Thomas, LL.D.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Hardy, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)