Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.
While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.
769 works Add another?
Most Editions | First Published | Most Recent
-
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
155 editions - first published in 1891 Read -
Mayor of Casterbridge: a story of a man of character
143 editions - first published in 1800 Read -
The Return of the Native
125 editions - first published in 1878 Read -
Far From the Madding Crowd
120 editions - first published in 1874 Read -
The woodlanders
75 editions - first published in 1800 Read -
Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire, a rural painting of the Dutch school
74 editions - first published in 1872 Read -
Desperate remedies: a novel
73 editions - first published in 1800 Read -
Two on a tower
62 editions - first published in 1800 Read -
Wessex Tales
52 editions - first published in 1800 Read -
A Laodicean: a story of to-day
43 editions - first published in 1800 Read -
Life's little ironies: a set of tales, with some colloquial sketches, entitled, A few crusted characters
40 editions - first published in 1894 Read -
Life and art: essays, notes, and letters collected for the first time.
28 editions - first published in 1921 Read -
The works of Thomas Hardy in prose and verse, with prefaces and notes
22 editions - first published in 1920 Read -
Time's laughingstocks, and other verses
14 editions - first published in 1909 Read -
The trumpet-major, John Loveday, a soldier in the war with Buonaparte, and Robert his brother, first mate in the merchant service: a tale
13 editions - first published in 1896 Read -
Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, With Miscellaneous Pieces
11 editions - first published in 1914 Read -
An indiscretion in the life of an heiress
11 editions - first published in 1934 -
A Changed Man and Other Tales
11 editions - first published in 2003 Borrow -
Late lyrics and earlier: with many other verses
10 editions - first published in 1922 Read -
Novels
10 editions - first published in 1983 Borrow -
A Changed Man: The Waiting Supper and Other Tales concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid.
9 editions - first published in 1913 Read -
Winter words: in various moods and metres
8 editions - first published in 1928 -
This Way, That Way, Set 1
6 editions - first published in 1990 -
Winter words in various moods and metres
6 editions - first published in 1928 -
The oxen
6 editions - first published in 1915 Read -
Talks with Thomas Hardy at Max Gate, 1920-1922
6 editions - first published in 1928 -
The Literary Notebooks of Thomas Hardy
5 editions - first published in 1985 -
Human shows, far phantasies, songs and trifles
5 editions - first published in 1925 -
The Poetry of Thomas Hardy
5 editions - first published in 1972 -
Thomas Hardy's personal writings: prefaces, literary opinions, reminiscences
5 editions - first published in 1967 -
The three strangers
5 editions - first published in 1900 -
Satires of circumstances: lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces
5 editions - first published in 1914 Read -
The Woodlanders Volume II
4 editions - first published in 2007 -
Love poems: Edited with notes and an introd. on Hardy's Cornish romance
4 editions - first published in 1963 -
Wessex poems: and other verses
4 editions - first published in 1898 Read -
The Woodlanders Volume I
4 editions - first published in 2007 -
Tess in the theatre
4 editions - first published in 1950 -
The dynasts, a drama of the Napoleonic wars
4 editions - first published in 1903 -
This Way, That Way, Set 2
4 editions - first published in 1990 -
Yuletide in a younger world: Drawings by Albert Rutherston.
4 editions - first published in 1927 -
Far From The Madding Crowd Volume I
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
Jude the Obscure Volume II
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
Macmillan's pocket Hardy
3 editions - first published in 1920 Read -
Wessex poems and other verses: poems of the past and the present.
3 editions - first published in 1899 Read -
[The Wessex novels]
3 editions - first published in 1902 -
Time's laughingstocks: and other verses
3 editions - first published in 1909 -
Return of the Native Volume I
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
An triuir choigreach: Eadar-theangaichte le B.G. Mac-Phionghuin [i.e. J.G. MacKinnon.]
3 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
The life and work of Thomas Hardy
3 editions - first published in 1984 -
The collected letters of Thomas Hardy
3 editions - first published in 1978 -
Great short works of Thomas Hardy
3 editions - first published in 1967 -
Fellow-townsmen
3 editions - first published in 1880 -
The personal notebooks of Thomas Hardy: with an appendix including the unpublished passages in the original typescripts of the Life of Thomas Hardy
3 editions - first published in 1978 -
The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved A Sketch of a Temperament
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
Poems of the past and present
3 editions - first published in 1903 Read -
The Thomas Hardy omnibus
3 editions - first published in 1978 -
Return of the Native Volume II
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
Friends beyond
3 editions - first published in 1984 -
The letters of Thomas Hardy
3 editions - first published in 1954 -
Works of Thomas Hardy: with an introduction and bibliography.
3 editions - first published in 1990 Checked out -
Some Romano-British relics found at Max Gate, Dorchester
2 editions - first published in 1966 -
The architectural notebook of Thomas Hardy
2 editions - first published in 1966 -
Selected Shorter Poems
2 editions - first published in 1966 -
One rare fair woman: Thomas Hardy's letters to Florence Henniker, 1893-1922
2 editions - first published in 1972 -
Remèdes désespérés
2 editions - first published in 1984 -
The pocket Thomas Hardy: being selections from the Wessex novels and poems of Thomas Hardy
2 editions - first published in 1906 Read -
Thomas Hardy's "poetical matter" notebook
2 editions - first published in 2009 -
Treasury of World Masterpieces, Thomas Hardy
2 editions - first published in 1982 -
The literary notes of Thomas Hardy
2 editions - first published in 1974 -
The well-beloved, a sketch of a temperament: With an etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a map of Wessex.
2 editions - first published in 1897 -
An imaginative woman: une femme d'imagination et autres contes
2 editions - first published in 1982 -
The poetical works of Thomas Hardy
2 editions - first published in 1919 -
The writings of Thomas Hardy in prose and verse, with prefaces and notes
2 editions - first published in 1920 Read -
Life and art by Thomas Hardy: essays, notes and letters collected for the first time with introduction
2 editions - first published in 1925 -
The play of St. George: as aforetime acted by the Dorsetshire Christmas Mummers : based on the version in "The return of the native": and completed from other versions and local tradition
2 editions - first published in 1928 -
Song of the soldiers
2 editions - first published in 1914 Read -
Personal writings: prefaces, literary opinions, reminiscenses
2 editions - first published in 1966 -
La Bien Amada
2 editions - first published in 2002 -
Tess of the D'Urberville: a pure woman faithfully presented
2 editions - first published in 1892 -
The Withered Arm
2 editions - first published in 2004 -
Figures in a Wessex landscape
2 editions - first published in 1987 -
Two Wessex tales
2 editions - first published in 1919 Read -
A selection of poems: Chosen and edited by W.E. Williams.
2 editions - first published in 1960 -
The poetry of William Barnes
2 editions - first published in 1979 -
Under the greenwood tree, or, The Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school
2 editions - first published in 1966 DAISY -
The bedside Thomas Hardy
2 editions - first published in 1979 -
The Pinnacled Power: Selected Poems
2 editions - first published in 1975 DAISY -
Works
2 editions - first published in 1899 Read -
The famous tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonesse
2 editions - first published in 1980 -
From Hardy at Max Gate: a series of letters
2 editions - first published in 1979 -
The Return of the Native With Connections: With Connections (Hrw Library)
2 editions - first published in 1995 -
Oxford Bookworms Library
2 editions - first published in 2004 -
The Great Novels of Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles/Far from the Madding Crowd/the Mayor of Casterbridge
2 editions - first published in 1994 Borrow -
The distracted preacher and other tales
2 editions - first published in 1980 Borrow -
The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy: Volume 5: 1914-1919 (Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy)
1 edition - first published in 1985 -
Wessex poems and other verses; Poems of the past and the present
1 edition - first published in 1907 Read -
New Wessex Selection of the Poems of Thomas Hardy
1 edition - first published in 1982 -
V. R. [1819-1901]: a reverie.
1 edition - first published in 1901 -
Late lyrics and earlier with many other verses
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
Am grünen Rand der Welt
1 edition - first published in 2002
Thomas Hardy
Close
Subjects
Fiction,
Accessible book,
Protected DAISY,
Social life and customs,
In library,
Homes and haunts,
Mayors,
Women farmers,
Literary collections,
Calendars,
OverDrive,
Poor women,
Quotations,
Quotations, maxims,
Textual Criticism,
Classic Literature,
Translations into French,
Poetry,
English Authors,
Notebooks, sketchbooks,
Adultery,
Correspondence,
Triangles (Interpersonal relations),
Drama,
Fiction in English
Places
People
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928),
Emma Lavinia Gifford Hardy (1840-1912),
Florence Henniker,
Florence Henniker (d. 1923),
Index10 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928),
Julia Augusta Martin,
Thomas Hardy (1840-1898),
Thomas, 1840-1928 Hardy,
William Archer (1856-1924),
William Barnes (1801-1886),
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time
Links (outside Open Library)
Alternative names
- HARDY, THOMAS, 1840-1928.
- Thomas HARDY
- P.N. FURBANK (INTRODUCTION) THOMAS HARDY
- Thomas Hardy
- PN Furbank
- Hardy, Thomas
History Created April 1, 2008 · 5 revisions
| May 15, 2011 | Edited by Nicholas Humfrey | Added link to WIkipedia |
| October 31, 2010 | Edited by Alan Millar | merge authors |
| May 14, 2010 | Edited by Lance Arthur | Add photo, bio |
| May 14, 2010 | Edited by Lance Arthur | Added new photo |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |