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.
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Poems
174 editions - first published in 1889 -
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
155 editions - first published in 1891 -
Mayor of Casterbridge: a story of a man of character
143 editions - first published in 1800 -
The Return of the Native
125 editions - first published in 1878 -
Far From the Madding Crowd
120 editions - first published in 1874 -
Jude the Obscure
95 editions - first published in 1895 -
The Trumpet-Major, and Robert His Brother
92 editions - first published in 1880 -
The woodlanders
75 editions - first published in 1800 -
Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire, a rural painting of the Dutch school
74 editions - first published in 1872 -
A Pair of Blue Eyes
74 editions - first published in 1800 -
Desperate remedies: a novel
73 editions - first published in 1800 -
The well-beloved: a sketch of a temperament
71 editions - first published in 1897 -
The dynasts
66 editions - first published in 1904 -
Two on a tower
62 editions - first published in 1800 -
The hand of Ethelberta: a comedy in chapters
57 editions - first published in 1876 -
A group of Noble Dames
55 editions - first published in 1891 -
Wessex Tales
52 editions - first published in 1800 -
The return of the native
51 editions - first published in 1878 -
A Laodicean: a story of to-day
43 editions - first published in 1800 -
Life's little ironies: a set of tales, with some colloquial sketches, entitled, A few crusted characters
40 editions - first published in 1894 -
Life and art: essays, notes, and letters collected for the first time.
28 editions - first published in 1921 -
The works of Thomas Hardy in prose and verse, with prefaces and notes
22 editions - first published in 1920 -
Short stories: a set of tales, with some colloquial sketches, entitled, A few crusted characters
22 editions - first published in 1913 -
Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire: a rural painting of the dutch school
14 editions - first published in 1900 -
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 -
Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, With Miscellaneous Pieces
11 editions - first published in 1914 -
A Changed Man and Other Tales
11 editions - first published in 2003 -
An indiscretion in the life of an heiress
11 editions - first published in 1934 -
Our exploits at West Poley
11 editions - first published in 1952 -
The three wayfarers: a play in one act
10 editions - first published in 1893 -
Our exploits at West Poley
10 editions - first published in 1952 -
Novels
10 editions - first published in 1983 -
Late lyrics and earlier: with many other verses
10 editions - first published in 1922 -
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
10 editions - first published in 1883 -
A Changed Man: The Waiting Supper and Other Tales concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid.
9 editions - first published in 1913 -
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 -
Satires of circumstance: lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces
6 editions - first published in 1914 -
The oxen
6 editions - first published in 1915 -
Tess of the d'Ubervilles: a pure woman
6 editions - first published in 1956 -
Talks with Thomas Hardy at Max Gate, 1920-1922
6 editions - first published in 1928 -
Winter words in various moods and metres
6 editions - first published in 1928 -
The famous tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse: a new version of an old story arranged as a play for mummers, in one act, requiring no theatre or scenery.
6 editions - first published in 1923 -
Letters: transcribed from the original autographs now in the Colby College Library, and edited with an introd. and notes by Carl J. Weber.
6 editions - first published in 1954 -
The three strangers
5 editions - first published in 1900 -
Human shows, far phantasies, songs and trifles
5 editions - first published in 1925 -
Thomas Hardy's personal writings: prefaces, literary opinions, reminiscences
5 editions - first published in 1967 -
Satires of circumstances: lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces
5 editions - first published in 1914 -
The Poetry of Thomas Hardy
5 editions - first published in 1972 -
The Literary Notebooks of Thomas Hardy
5 editions - first published in 1985 -
The Woodlanders Volume II
4 editions - first published in 2007 -
The Woodlanders Volume I
4 editions - first published in 2007 -
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 -
Love poems: Edited with notes and an introd. on Hardy's Cornish romance
4 editions - first published in 1963 -
Tess of the D'Urbevilles: a pure woman faithfully presented
4 editions - first published in 1891 -
Tess in the theatre
4 editions - first published in 1950 -
Wessex poems: and other verses
4 editions - first published in 1898 -
The dynasts, a drama of the Napoleonic wars
4 editions - first published in 1903 -
Macmillan's pocket Hardy
4 editions - first published in 1920 -
The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888
4 editions - first published in 1999 -
The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved A Sketch of a Temperament
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
Far From The Madding Crowd Volume I
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
Jude the Obscure Volume II
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
Return of the Native Volume II
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
Macmillan's pocket Hardy
3 editions - first published in 1920 -
[The Wessex novels]
3 editions - first published in 1902 -
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An triuir choigreach: Eadar-theangaichte le B.G. Mac-Phionghuin [i.e. J.G. MacKinnon.]
3 editions - first published in 1900 -
Great short works of Thomas Hardy
3 editions - first published in 1967 -
The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: 1,800 Headwords Wuthering Heights
3 editions - first published in 2000 -
Wessex poems and other verses: poems of the past and the present.
3 editions - first published in 1899 -
Friends beyond
3 editions - first published in 1984 -
The old clock
3 editions - first published in 1946 -
Time's laughingstocks: and other verses
3 editions - first published in 1909 -
The letters of Thomas Hardy
3 editions - first published in 1954 -
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 -
Poems of the past and present
3 editions - first published in 1903 -
Hardy
3 editions - first published in 1963 -
Jude the Obscure
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
Works of Thomas Hardy: with an introduction and bibliography.
3 editions - first published in 1990 -
Return of the Native Volume I
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
Far from the Madding Crowd
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
Return of the Native
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
The pursuit of the well-beloved ; & The well-beloved
3 editions - first published in 1997 -
The Thomas Hardy omnibus
3 editions - first published in 1978 -
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 -
An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress and Other Stories
3 editions - first published in 1994 -
Fellow-townsmen
3 editions - first published in 1880 -
The Pinnacled Power: Selected Poems
2 editions - first published in 1975 -
Selected Shorter Poems
2 editions - first published in 1966 -
Remèdes désespérés
2 editions - first published in 1984 -
Treasury of World Masterpieces, Thomas Hardy
2 editions - first published in 1982 -
La Bien Amada
2 editions - first published in 2002 -
The Dynasts (Collected Works of Thomas Hardy)
2 editions - first published in 2001 -
The Penguin Thomas Hardy: Under the Greenwood Tree (The Mellstock Quire: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School); Far from the Madding Crowd; The Return ... Casterbridge: A Story of a Man of Character
2 editions - first published in 1984 -
Oxford Bookworms Library
2 editions - first published in 2004 -
The Return of the Native With Connections: With Connections (Hrw Library)
2 editions - first published in 1995 -
The Withered Arm
2 editions - first published in 2004 -
An imaginative woman: une femme d'imagination et autres contes
2 editions - first published in 1982
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