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 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 -
Jude the Obscure
95 editions - first published in 1895 Read -
The Trumpet-Major, and Robert His Brother
92 editions - first published in 1880 Read -
The woodlanders
75 editions - first published in 1800 Read -
A Pair of Blue Eyes
74 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 -
The well-beloved: a sketch of a temperament
71 editions - first published in 1897 Read -
The dynasts
66 editions - first published in 1904 Read -
Two on a tower
62 editions - first published in 1800 Read -
The hand of Ethelberta: a comedy in chapters
57 editions - first published in 1876 Read -
A group of Noble Dames
55 editions - first published in 1891 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 -
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 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
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A Changed Man and Other Tales
11 editions - first published in 2003 -
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 Borrow -
Novels
10 editions - first published in 1983 Borrow -
Late lyrics and earlier: with many other verses
10 editions - first published in 1922 Read -
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 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 -
Talks with Thomas Hardy at Max Gate, 1920-1922
6 editions - first published in 1928 -
Satires of circumstance: lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces
6 editions - first published in 1914 -
The oxen
6 editions - first published in 1915 Read -
Winter words in various moods and metres
6 editions - first published in 1928 -
Tess of the d'Ubervilles: a pure woman
6 editions - first published in 1956 DAISY -
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 Read -
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 -
The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888
4 editions - first published in 1999 -
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 Read -
The dynasts, a drama of the Napoleonic wars
4 editions - first published in 1903 -
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 Read -
[The Wessex novels]
3 editions - first published in 1902 -
An triuir choigreach: Eadar-theangaichte le B.G. Mac-Phionghuin [i.e. J.G. MacKinnon.]
3 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
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 Read -
An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress and Other Stories
3 editions - first published in 1994 -
The pursuit of the well-beloved ; & The well-beloved
3 editions - first published in 1997 -
Friends beyond
3 editions - first published in 1984 -
The life and work of Thomas Hardy
3 editions - first published in 1984 -
The old clock
3 editions - first published in 1946 -
Fellow-townsmen
3 editions - first published in 1880 -
Time's laughingstocks: and other verses
3 editions - first published in 1909 -
The letters of Thomas Hardy
3 editions - first published in 1954 -
The collected letters of Thomas Hardy
3 editions - first published in 1978 -
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 Read -
Hardy
3 editions - first published in 1963 -
Jude the Obscure
3 editions - first published in 2006 DAISY -
Works of Thomas Hardy: with an introduction and bibliography.
3 editions - first published in 1990 Borrow -
Return of the Native Volume I
3 editions - first published in 2006 -
Far from the Madding Crowd
3 editions - first published in 2006 DAISY -
Return of the Native
3 editions - first published in 2006 DAISY -
The Thomas Hardy omnibus
3 editions - first published in 1978 DAISY -
The Pinnacled Power: Selected Poems
2 editions - first published in 1975 DAISY -
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 -
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 -
The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion and Other Stories
2 editions - first published in 2007 -
The Trumpet Major
2 editions - first published in 2004 -
Works
2 editions - first published in 1899 Read -
Thomas Hardy's "poetical matter" notebook
2 editions - first published in 2009 DAISY
Thomas Hardy
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