General Introductions

• An Introduction to the Novels
• Thomas Hardy and Magazine Fiction, 1870-1900
• The Intended Audience and Serial Structure of Hardy's Novels
• Thomas Hardy's Poetry: The London Years
• Magazines featuring both Hardy's Serialised Short Stories and Novels
• Bowdlerization and Self-Censorship in Hardy's and Other Victorian Fiction
• The Implicit Theme in Hardy's Works

Novels

• A Pair of Blue Eyes
• Did Hardy Base Elfride Swancourt on His Fiancée Emma Lavinia Gifford?
• Pasquier's Illustrations
• Complete text (Arthur's Classic Novels)
• Far from the Madding Crowd, 1874
  • The Athenæum on Thomas Hardy's Somerset Dialect
  • Allingham's illustrations with commentaries
  • Complete text (Arthur's Classic Novels)
• The Hand of Ethelberta, 1875-76
• DuMaurier's illustrations with commentaries
• Jude the Obscure
  • Discussion
  • Hatherall's illustrations with commentaries
  • Discussion questions
  • Complete text (Arthur's Classic Novels)
  The Return of the Native, 1878
• Tartarean Imagery in The Return of the Native
• The Serial Structure of The Return of the Native
• Hopkins's illustrations with commentaries
• discussion questions
• Complete text (Arthur's Classic Novels)
• The Trumpet-Major, 1880-81
• DuMaurier's illustrations with commentaries
• A Laodicean, 1880-81
• DuMaurier's illustrations with commentaries
• The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid, 1883
  • Illustrations
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 1891
  • The Weekly Parts of Tess of the D'Urbervilles in the London Graphic
  • Tess of the Derbyfield — Good Woman or Noble Dame?
  • James A. W. Heffernan's "Cruel Persuasion": Seduction, Temptation, and Agency in Hardy's Tess
  • Thomas Hardy, Tess, and Melodrama
  • Illustrations by various artists with commentaries
  • Mrs Agatha Thornycraft — A Visual Inspiration for Hardy's Tess
  • Complete text (Arthur's Classic Novels)
• The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved, 1892
• Paget's illustrations with commentaries

Fiction (continued)

• The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • The Wife Sale
  • Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge As an Aristotelian Tragedy
  • Thomas Hardy's Pictorial Imagination and The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • Barnes's illustrations with commentaries
  • Discussion Questions
  • Suggested essay topics
  • Complete text (Arthur's Classic Novels)

Short Stories

• "Fiddler of the Reels"
• Hatherall's illustration with commentary
• "The Three Strangers," 1883
• Text (Arthur's Classic Novels)
• An Introduction
• "The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion"
• text (Arthur's Classic Novels)
• Textual history
• Reading questions
• More Reading Questions — and Five Responses
• Necessary vocabulary)
• "Tony Kytes, The Arch-Deceiver," 1891
• Text
• Publication History and Cast of Characters

Poetry

• "Afterwards" (1917) text — leading questions
• "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave" (1917) text — leading questions
• "At Lulworth Cove A Century Back"
• "The Darkling Thrush" (1900) text — leading questions
• "Drummer Hodge or the Dead Drummer" (1899) text — leading questions
• The Dynasts (discussion — bibliography)
• Time's Laughingstocks (1909) — discussion — leading questions
• "Channel Firing" (1914)
• "Convergence of the Twain"
• "Hap" (1866) text — leading questions
• "The Levelled Churchyard" text — discussion
• "In Time of 'the Breaking of Nations'" (1915) text
• "Neutral Tones" (1866) text — leading questions
• "Nobody Comes" text and leading questions
• "The Oxen" (1915) text — commentary — leading questions
• "The Ruined Maid" text — reading questions
• "Where the Picnic Was" — leading questions
• "A Trampwoman's Tragedy" — text
• "Winter Night in Woodland (Old Time)" —text — commentary