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Born in 1840 / Died in 1928 / United Kingdom / English

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POETRY

  • (And illustrator) Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Harper & Brothers, 1898.
  • Poems of the Past and the Present, Harper & Brothers, 1901.
  • Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, Macmillan, 1909.
  • Satires of Circumstance, Macmillan, 1914.
  • Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses, Macmillan, 1917.
  • Late Lyrics and Earlier With Many Other Verses, Macmillan, 1922.
  • Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles, Macmillan, 1925.
  • Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, Macmillan, 1928.

POETRY—OMNIBUS EDITIONS

  • Selected Poems, Macmillan, 1916.
  • Collected Poems, Macmillan, 1919, enlarged edition, 1930, Macmillan, 1931.
  • Chosen Poems, Macmillan, 1929.
  • The Complete Poems, Macmillan, 1976, Macmillan, 1978.
  • The Variorum Edition of the Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy, Macmillan, 1979.
  • 1982-85 The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, Oxford University Press.
  • Thomas Hardy: Selected Poetry, Oxford University Press (New York City), 1996.
  • Thomas Hardy: Selected Poetry and Nonfictional Prose, St. Martin’s Press (New York, NY), 1996.
  • Selected Poems, edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Mezey, Penguin Books (New York, NY), 1998.
  • Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems, edited by James Gibson, Palgrave (New York, NY), 2001.

NOVELS

  • Desperate Remedies (anonymously; three volumes), Tinsley Brothers, 1871, revised one volume edition, Henry Holt & Company, 1874, recent edition, St. Martin’s, 1977.
  • Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School (anonymously; two volumes), Tinsley Brothers, 1872, one volume edition, Holt & Williams, 1873, recent edition, Oxford University Press, 1986.
  • A Pair of Blue Eyes (first published serially in Tinsley’s Magazine, September, 1872-July, 1873), three volumes, Tinsley Brothers, 1873, one volume edition, Holt & Williams, 1873, revised edition, Macmillan, 1919, recent edition, Penguin Books, 1986.
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (first published serially in Cornhill Magazine, January, 1874-December, 1874), two volumes, Smith, Elder & Company, 1874, one volume edition, Henry Holt & Company, 1874, revised edition, Smith, Elder, & Company, 1875, recent edition, Norton, 1986.
  • The Hand of Ethelberta (first published serially in Cornhill Magazine, July, 1875-May, 1876), two volumes, Smith, Elder & Company, 1876, one volume edition, Henry Holt & Company, 1876, revised edition, Osgood, McIlvaine & Company, 1896, recent edition, St. Martin’s, 1978.
  • The Return of the Native (first published serially in Belgravia, January, 1878-December, 1878), three volumes, Smith, Elder & Company, 1878, one volume edition, Henry Holt & Company, 1878, revised edition, Osgood McIlvaine & Company, 1895, recent edition, Garland Publishing, 1986.
  • The Trumpet-Major: A Tale (first published serially in Good Words, January, 1880-December, 1880), three volumes, Smith, Elder & Company, 1880, one volume edition, Henry Holt & Company, 1880, recent edition, Penguin Books, 1985.
  • A Laodicean (first published serially in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, December, 1880-December, 1881), Harper & Brothers, 1881, three volume edition, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881, recent edition, St. Martin’s, 1978.
  • Two on a Tower: A Romance (first published serially in Atlantic Monthly, May, 1882-December, 1882), three volumes, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882, one volume edition, Henry Holt & Company, 1882, revised edition, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1883, recent edition, Macmillan, 1976.
  • The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid (also see below; first published serially in Graphic, summer, 1883), Harper & Brothers, 1883.
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (first published serially in Graphic, January 2, 1886-May 15, 1886), two volumes, Smith, Elder & Company, 1886, revised one volume edition, Henry Holt & Company, 1886, recent edition, Chelsea House, 1987, 2nd edition, W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 2001.
  • The Woodlanders (first published serially in Macmillan’s Magazine, May, 1886-April, 1887), three volumes, Macmillan, 1887, one volume edition, Harper & Brothers, 1887, recent edition, Oxford University Press, 1985.
  • Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (first published serially in Graphic, July 4, 1891-December 26, 1891), three volumes, Osgood, McIlvaine Company, 1891, one volume edition, Harper & Brothers, 1892, revised editions, Osgood, McIlvaine & Company, 1892, 1895, recent edition, Buccaneer Books, 1987.
  • Jude the Obscure (first published serially in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, December, 1894-November, 1895), Harper & Brothers, 1896, revised edition, Macmillan, 1902, recent edition, Chelsea House, 1987, 2nd edition, W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 1999, revised edition, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2002.
  • The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of Temperament (first published serially in Illustrated London News, October 1, 1892-December 17, 1892), Harper & Brothers, 1897, recent edition, St. Martin’s, 1978.
  • An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress (first published in New Quarterly Magazine, July, 1878), privately printed, 1934.

Also author of unpublished novel The Poor Man and the Lady.

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

  • Wessex Tales, two volumes, Macmillan, 1888, one volume edition, Harper & Brothers, 1888, revised edition, Osgood, McIlvaine & Company, 1896, 2nd revised edition, Macmillan, 1912, recent edition, Franklin Library, 1982.
  • A Group of Noble Dames, Harper & Brothers, 1891, recent edition, St. Martin’s, 1957.
  • Life’s Little Ironies, Harper & Brothers, 1894, revised edition, Macmillan, 1912, recent edition, Academy Chicago Publishers, 1985.
  • A Changed Man, The Waiting Supper, and Other Tales, Harper & Brothers, 1913, recent edition, Academy Chicago Publishers, 1986.
  • Old Mrs. Chundle and Other Stories, with The Tragedy of the Famous Queen of Cornwall, St. Martin’s, 1977.
  • An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress and Other Stories, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1994.
  • “The Fiddler of the Reels” and Other Stories, Dover Publications (Mineola, NY), 1997.
  • The Complete Stories, edited by N. Page, J.M. Dent (London, England), 1997.
  • The Withered Arm and Other Stories, 1874-1888, edited with an introduction and notes by Kristin Brady, Penguin Books (New York, NY), 1999.

PLAYS

  • The Mistress of the Farm (adapted from Far from the Madding Crowd; first produced as Far from the Madding Crowd in Liverpool at the Prince of Wales Theatre, February 27, 1882, produced in the West End at the Globe Theatre, April 29, 1882), privately printed, c. 1879.
  • The Three Wayfarers (one act; first produced in London at Terry’s Theatre, June 3, 1893), Harper & Brothers, 1893, revised edition, Fountain Press, 1930, recent edition, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1979.
  • Tess of the d’Urbervilles (five acts; adapted from the novel of the same name), first produced in New York at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, March 2, 1897; later published in Tess in the Theatre, edited by Marguerite Roberts, University of Toronto Press, 1950.
  • The Dynasts (nineteen acts; selected revised scenes first produced in London at Kingsway Theatre, November 25, 1914), Macmillan, Volume 1, 1904, Volume 2, 1905, Volume 3, 1908, one volume edition, 1910, recent edition, 1978.
  • (Adapter) The Play of “Saint George,” privately printed, 1921.
  • The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall (one-act; first produced in Dorchester, England, November, 1923), Macmillan, 1923, revised edition, 1924, recent edition, Folcroft, 1980.

OTHER

  • (With wife, Florence Emily Hardy) The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1891 (autobiography), Macmillan, 1928.
  • (With F. Hardy) The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892-1928 (autobiography), Macmillan, 1930.
  • Thomas Hardy’s Personal Writings: Prefaces, Literary Opinions, Reminiscences, University of Kansas, 1966.
  • The Literary Notes of Thomas Hardy, Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1974.
  • The Personal Notebooks of Thomas Hardy, Macmillan, 1978, Columbia University Press, 1979.
  • The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, edited by Richard L. Purdy and Michael Millgate, Oxford University Press, Volume 1, 1978, Volume 2, 1980, Volume 3, 1982, Volume 4, 1984, Volume 5, 1985, Volume 6, 1987, Volume 7, 1988.
  • Thomas Hardy’s Christmas, compiled by John Chandler, A. Sutton, 1997.
  • Thomas Hardy’s Public Voice: The Essays, Speeches, and Miscellaneous Prose, edited by Michael Millgate, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2001.

Also author of nonfiction prose works such as “Candour in English Fiction,” 1890.

COLLECTED WORKS

  • The Penguin Thomas Hardy, Penguin Books, 1983.
  • The Works of Thomas Hardy in Prose: With Prefaces and Notes, eighteen volumes, AMS Press, 1984.
  • Works of Thomas Hardy, Smith Publications, 1989.
  • The Essential Hardy, edited by Joseph Brodsky, Ecco Press (Hopewell, NJ), 1995.

A previously unpublished notebook featuring Hardy’s notes about real-life events that served as inspiration for some of his novels was published in 2003 by Ashgate (Hampshire, United Kingdom) as Thomas Hardy’s ‘Facts’ Notebook, edited by William Greenslade.