Thomas Hardy

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  • Bibliography:
    56 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1876
  • Latest Book:
    March 2018
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Book List in Order: 56 titles

  • The Hand of Ethelberta

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    Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was one of the most famous authors of the Victorian Era.  Hardy is best known for novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d’Urbervilles but he also was a very influential poet.  This edition of T...

  • The Return of the Native

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    The rural tranquility of the heather-covered English countryside is the setting for this moving novel of conflicting aspirations and tragic destiny. Clym Yeobright returns from Paris to the village of his birth, idealistically inspired to improve the...

  • The Woodlanders

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    Love, and the erratic heart, are at the centre of Hardy's 'woodland story'. The romantic entanglements of Giles Winterborne, Grace Melbury, the dissolute Edred Fitzpiers and the wealthy Felice Charmond are bound up with issues of class and social st...

  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    In Tess, victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy, Thomas Hardy created no standard Victorian heroine, but a woman whose intense vitality flares unforgettably against the bleak background of a dying rural society. Shaped by an acute sense of social...

  • Far from the Madding Crowd

    'The first of Hardy's great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his best fiction is remembered' Margaret DrabbleThomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and wit...

  • Wessex Tales

    In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. But these tales also portray the social and economic stresses of 1880s Dors...

  • A Pair of Blue Eyes

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.The following chapters were written at a time when the craze for indiscriminate church-restoration had just reached the remotest nooks of western England, where the wild and tragic features of the coast had ...

  • Selected Stories of Thomas Hardy

  • The Trumpet-Major and Robert His Brother

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    Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill owned by Miller Loveday, has three suitors: the local squire's nephew Festus and the miller's two sons, Robert and John. While Festus' aggressive pursuit deters the young woman from considerin...



  • The Excluded and Collaborative Stories

    Included in this edition are ten stories which were never collected into volumes during Hardy's lifetime. Some contain references to actual people, or plot elements that he reused elsewhere, and others, such as his stories for children, were simply t...

  • A Laodicean

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.The changing of the old order in country manors and mansions may be slow or sudden, may have many issues romantic or otherwise, its romantic issues being not necessarily restricted to a change back to the or...

  • Two on a Tower

    Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was one of the most famous authors of the Victorian Era.  Hardy is best known for novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d’Urbervilles but he also was a very influential poet.  This edition of T...

  • Selected Short Stories

    Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury The proverbial phrase life s little ironies was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wea...

  • The Uncharted Heart

    These eight tales of survival and triumph, suffused with magical realism, bring to life the harsh struggles, the dreams, the greed, the obsessions, the xenophobia — and the love — experienced by the trappers and prospectors who flocked to...

  • The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories: 1888-1900

    The Melancholy Hussar/ A Tragedy of Two Ambitions/ The First Countess of Wessex/ Barbara of the House of Grebe/ For Conscience' Sake/ The Son's Veto/ On the Western Circuit/ An Imaginative Woman/ A Changed Man/ Enter a Dragoon The 11 short storiesin ...

  • A Mere Interlude

    As Baptista travels home to marry her parents’ old neighbour, she encounters her lost lover. They elope together, but tragedy strikes unexpectedly on their wedding day and she returns to her parents to do her duty. Will her other, brief love remain...

  • Oxford Bookworms Library

    This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.

    Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.

  • Tales from Longpuddle

    This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.

    Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.

  • The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid

    Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was one of the most famous authors of the Victorian Era.  Hardy is best known for novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d’Urbervilles but he also was a very influential poet.  This edition of T...



  • The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy. Vol. 2

  • The Spooky And Scary Tales Of Thomas Hardy

  • Enter a Dragoon

    The woodman who lived nearest the site of the story told most of the tale. Selina, the daughter of the Paddocks opposite, had been surprised that afternoon by receiving a letter from her once intended husband, then a corporal, but now a sergeant-majo...

  • Fellow Townsmen

    During a certain damp evening five-and-thirty years ago, before the twilight was far advanced, a pedestrian of professional appearance, carrying a small bag in his hand and an elevated umbrella, was descending one of these hills by the turnpike road ...

  • The Grave by the Handpost

    Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dic...

  • An Imaginative Woman

    When William Marchmill had finished his inquiries for lodgings at a well-known watering-place in Upper Wessex, he returned to the hotel to find his wife. She, with the children, had rambled along the shore, and Marchmill followed in the direction ind...

  • Interlopers at the Knap

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  • The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion

    It was nearly ninety years ago. The British uniform of the period, with its immense epaulettes, queer cocked-hat, breeches, gaiters, ponderous cartridge-box, buckled shoes, and what not, would look strange and barbarous now. Ideas have changed; inven...

  • The Son's Veto

    As the strains proceeded many of the listeners observed the chaired lady, whose back hair, by reason of her prominent position, so challenged inspection. Her face was not easily discernible, but the aforesaid cunning tress-weavings, the white ear and...

  • To Please His Wife

    The interior of St. James's Church, in Havenpool Town, was slowly darkening under the close clouds of a winter afternoon. It was Sunday: service had just ended, the face of the parson in the pulpit was buried in his hands, and the congregation, with ...



  • The Waiting Supper

    Whoever had perceived the yeoman standing on Squire Everard's lawn in the dusk of that October evening fifty years ago, might have said at first sight that he was loitering there from idle curiosity. For a large five-light window of the manor-house i...

  • Our Exploits at West Poley

    Both an exciting adventure story and a wise morality tale, this “story for boys” by the great Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy tells of how two young men exploring a cave discover the dangers of taking the well-being of others into their own hands...

  • Selected Works of Thomas Hardy

    The Selected Works of Thomas Hardy includes many of the esteemed author’s best-known works: Far From the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure.Influenced by the Romantics, Hardy’s novels are dee...

  • Wessex Poems and Other Verses

    Wessex Poems and Other Verses is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine...

  • A Tragedy of Two Ambitions

    The shouts of the village-boys came in at the window, accompanied by broken laughter from loungers at the inn-door; but the brothers Halborough worked on. They were sitting in a bedroom of the master-millwright's house, engaged in the untutored readi...

  • Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses

    " ...] Honeymoon Time at an Inn The Robin "I rose and went to Rou'tor town" The Nettles In a Waiting-room The Clock-winder Old Excursions The Masked Face In a Whispering Gallery The Something that saved Him The Enemy's Portrait Imaginings On the Door...

  • Woman much missed

  • Stories of Wessex

    This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:Novels:Under the Greenwood TreeFar from the Madding CrowdThe Return of the NativeThe Mayor of CasterbridgeThe WoodlandersTess of th...

  • Desperate Remedies

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    Cytherea has taken a position as lady''s maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe''s fascinat...

  • The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales

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    The darkly passionate short stories of Thomas Hardy are compelling explorations of love, social class, superstition and legend. This collection contains many of his finest and most representative, and includes 'The Withered Arm', an eerie depiction o...



  • The Dynasts

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    The Dynasts is a closet drama about the Napoleonic war. ''It may, I think, claim at least a tolerable fidelity to the facts of its date as they are give in ordinary records,'' Hardy says in his preface, but this is no merely historical drama, as the ...

  • A Group of Noble Dames

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • Life's Little Ironies

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    Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was one of the most famous authors of the Victorian Era.  Hardy is best known for novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d’Urbervilles but he also was a very influential poet.  This edition of L...

  • The Mayor of Casterbridge

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    In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbr...

  • Poems Of The Past And The Present

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  • The Pursuit Of The Well Beloved

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    Books for All Kinds of ReadersReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead‚'¢ are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words an...

  • Stories in Black and White

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    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

  • The Three Strangers

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    Hardy's The Three Strangers is the story of three mysterious men, one of them, Timothy Summers, convicted of sheep-stealing, who interrupt party of shepherds celebrating a birth and a christening. The men behave strangely indeed....

  • Two Wessex Tales

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    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

  • Under the Greenwood Tree: Or, the Mellstock Quire

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    The arrival of two newcomers in the quiet village of Mellstock arouses a bitter feud and leaves a convoluted love affair in its wake. While the Reverend Maybold creates a furore among the village's musicians with his decision to abolish the church's ...



  • The Well-Beloved

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    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.The peninsula carved by Time out of a single stone, whereon most of the following scenes are laid, has been for centuries immemorial the home of a curious and well-nigh distinct people, cherishing strange be...

  • Wessex Poems and Other Verses ; Poems of the Past and the Present

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    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

  • The Withered Arm and Other Stories

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    'She bared her poor curst arm'A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ev...

  • The Writings Of Thomas Hardy In Prose And Verse

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    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

  • A Changed Man

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    Thomas Hardy (2 June 184011 January 1928) was a writer and poet born in Dorchester, England. Hardys poetry dealt mainly with the naturalism movement. Hardy considered himself a poet first, but his most famous works were his novels, particularly Far f...

  • Jude the Obscure

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    Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. The book was burnt publicly by the Bishop of Exeter in that same year. Its hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who dre...

  • The Trumpet-Major

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    The present tale is founded more largely on testimony - oral and written - than any other in this series. The external incidents which direct its course are mostly an unexaggerated reproduction of the recollections of old persons well known to the au...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Thomas Hardy has published 56 books.

Thomas Hardy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Stories of Wessex, was published in March 2018.

The first book by Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta, was published in January 1876.

No. Thomas Hardy does not write books in series.
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