Author:Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy
(1840–1928)

Thomas Hardy

Novels

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

Novels of character and environment

• Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• The Return of the Native (1878) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
• The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• The Woodlanders
  • First edition (3 volumes 1887) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
  • Second edition (1896)
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
• Jude the Obscure (1896)

Romances and fantasies

• A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
• The Trumpet-Major (1880) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
• Two on a Tower (1882) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
• The Well-Beloved (1897) (transcription project)

Novels of ingenuity

• Desperate Remedies (1871) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
• The Hand of Ethelberta (1876) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• A Laodicean (1881) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)

Stories

Story collections

• Wessex Tales (1888) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• A Group of Noble Dames (1891) (transcription project)
• Life's Little Ironies (1894)
  • Life's Little Ironies (1905) (transcription project)
  • Life's Little Ironies (1922) (transcription project)
• A Changed Man and Other Tales (1913) (transcription project)

Individual stories

• 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
• "The Melancholy Hussar" in Three Notable Stories (1890) (transcription project)
• 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 and Other Verses (1898) (transcription project) (Imprint says 1899)
• Poems of the Past and the Present (1902) (transcription project)
• Time's Laughingstocks (1909) (transcription project)
• Satires of Circumstance (1914) (transcription project)
• "Moments of Vision" (1917) (transcription project)
• "Collected Poems" (1919) (Not on IA April 2021)
• "Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses" (1922) (transcription project)
• "Collected Poems" (1923)
• "Collected Poems" (1925)
• "Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles" (1925) (transcription project)
• "Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres" (1928) (transcription project)

Individual poems

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

Anthologized

• "Cry of the Homeless", in The Book of the Homeless (1916)
• In A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 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", in 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)
• The Life of Thomas Hardy by Ernest Brennecke, Jr. (1925)