This volume collects the complete writings of Thomas Hardy (1840–1928,
Wikipedia):
Novels
Desperate Remedies
[1871]
Under the Greenwood Tree
[1872]
A Pair of Blue Eyes
[1873]
Far from the Madding Crowd
[1874]
The Hand of Ethelberta
[1876]
The Return of the Native
[1878]
The Trumpet-Major John Loveday
[1880]
A Laodicean
[1881]
Two on a Tower
[1882]
The Mayor of Casterbridge
[1886]
The Woodlanders
[1887]
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
[1891]
Jude the Obscure
[1895]
The Well–Beloved
[1897]
Stories
Wessex Tales [1888]:
The Three Strangers; A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion; The Withered Arm; Fellow-Townsmen; Interlopers at the Knap; The Distracted Preacher
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 [1894]:
An Imaginative Woman; The Son’s Veto; For Conscience’ Sake; A Tragedy of Two Ambitions; On the Western Circuit; To Please His Wife; The Fiddler of the Reels; A Few Crusted Characters
A Changed Man and Other Tales [1913]:
A Changed Man; The Waiting Supper; Alicia’s Diary; The Grave by the Handpost; Enter A Dragoon; A Tryst at an Ancient Earth Work; What the Shepherd Saw; A Committee-Man of ‘The Terror’; The Duke’s Reappearance; A Mere Interlude; The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
Uncollected Stories:
Blue Jimmy: The Horse Stealer; Destiny and a Blue Cloak; How I Built Myself a House; Old Mrs Chundle; Our Exploits at West Poley; The Doctor’s Legend; The Spectre of the Real; The Thieves Who Couldn’t Help Sneezing; The Unconquerable; An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress
Poems
Wessex Poems and Other Verses
[1898]
Poems of the Past and the Present
[1901]
Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses
[1909]
Satires of Circumstance with Miscellaneous Pieces
[1914]
Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
[1917]
Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses
[1923]
Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles
[1925]
Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres
[1928]
31 uncollected poems and fragments
The texts are sourced from the University of Adelaide, mostly, while the uncollected stories and poems are from the site of the Thomas Hardy Society.
The formatting, italics, and diacritics have been checked and corrected by comparing the texts with the paper editions. Quotes are curly, footnotes are active, and fonts are embedded. There are the usual inline tables of contents and links after each text/chapter to get back to the respective tables, and alphabetical indexes for the poems and stories. The dates of first (book) publication are noted whenever available. As I don’t like the illustrations for Hardy’s writings, they are not part of this collection.
Not yet included are his plays, because I couldn’t bring myself to format the 900-page monster
The Dynasts, which is available on Gutenberg, but only in hard-to-transform <pre> elements. It will be added in a future update, which might take a week—or a year.
Best regards,
pynch.
Update | v.1.1 | 8 Jun 2014
Corrected some missing Greek words and a minor formatting flaw.
Update | v.1.2 | 31 Jul 2016
Proofed
Desperate Remedies, Under the Greenwood Tree, Two on a Tower, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Woodlanders, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, The Well-Beloved, Wessex Tales, A Group of Noble Dames, Life’s Little Ironies, and
A Changed Man and Other Tales against reprints of the Wessex Edition, Macmillan and Co. 1912, and corrected thousands of mistakes and variants.
Update | v.1.3 | 14 Aug 2016
Proofed
A Pair of Blue Eyes, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Hand of Ethelberta, The Return of the Native, The Trumpet-Major John Loveday, A Laodicean, Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Poems of the Past and the Present, Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, Satires of Circumstance with Miscellaneous Pieces, and
Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses against reprints of the Wessex Edition, Macmillan and Co. 1912, and corrected thousands of mistakes and variants. The layout is revised and the
Wessex Edition frontispieces are included.
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