Introduction

Biography

Hardy was the son of Tho­mas Har­dy and Je­mi­ma Hand. He mar­ried twice, to Em­ma Gif­ford (1874, Ken­sing­ton) and Flor­ence Em­ily Dug­dale (1914).

A well known au­thor, po­et, and some time ar­chi­tect, he be­came a mem­ber of Bri­tain’s Order of Mer­it in 1910, and was no­mi­nat­ed for the No­bel Prize in Li­te­ra­ture twen­ty-five times.

Works

• The Poor Man and the La­dy, 1867
• 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, 1880
• A Lao­di­ce­an; or, The Cas­tle of the De Stan­cys, 1880
• Two on a Tow­er, 1882
• The May­or of Cas­ter­bridge, 1886
• The Wood­land­ers, 1887
• Wessex Tales, 1888
• Tess of the d’Ur­ber­villes, 1891
• A Group of No­ble Dames, 1891
• Life’s Lit­tle Ir­on­ies, 1894
• Jude the Ob­scure, 1895
• The Well-Be­loved, 1897
• Wessex Po­ems and Oth­er Vers­es, 1898
• Poems of the Past and the Pre­sent, 1901
• The Dy­nasts: An Epic-Dra­ma of the War with Na­po­le­on, in three parts: 1904, 1906 & 1908
• Time's Laugh­ing­stocks and Oth­er Verses1909
• A Changed Man and Oth­er Tales, 1913
• Satires of Cir­cum­stance, 1914
• Moments of Vi­sion, 1917
• Collected Po­ems, 1919
• Late Lyr­ics and Ear­li­er with Ma­ny Oth­er Verses, 1922
• The Fa­mous Tra­ge­dy of the Queen of Corn­wall at Tin­ta­gel in Ly­on­nesse, 1923
• Human Shows, Far Phan­ta­sies, Songs and Tri­fles, 1925
• Winter Words in Va­ri­ous Moods and Metres, 1928