General Introductions

• An Introduction to the Novels
• Thomas Hardy and Magazine Fiction, 1870-1900
• The Intended Audience and Serial Structure of Hardy's Novels
• Thomas Hardy's Poetry: The London Years
• Magazines featuring both Hardy's Serialised Short Stories and Novels
• Bowdlerization and Self-Censorship in Hardy's and Other Victorian Fiction
• The Implicit Theme in Hardy's Works

Desperate Remedies, 1871

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• Illustrations

Under the Greenwood Tree, 1872

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A Pair of Blue Eyes

• Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes as a Cliffhanger with a Post-Darwinian Message
• Did Hardy Base Elfride Swancourt on His Fiancée Emma Lavinia Gifford?
• Pasquier's Illustrations
• Complete text (Arthur's Classic Novels)

Far from the Madding Crowd, 1874

• The Athenæum on Thomas Hardy's Somerset Dialect
• Allingham's illustrations with commentaries
• Complete text (Arthur's Classic Novels)

The Hand of Ethelberta, 1875-76

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Jude the Obscure

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• Discussion
• Hatherall's illustrations with commentaries
• Discussion questions
• Complete text (Arthur's Classic Novels)

The Return of the Native, 1878

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• Tartarean Imagery in The Return of the Native
• The Serial Structure of The Return of the Native
• Hopkins's illustrations with commentaries
• discussion questions
• Complete text (Arthur's Classic Novels)

The Trumpet-Major, 1880-81

• Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet Major – A Minor Masterpiece With a Flaw
• Collier's illustrations with commentaries

Two on a Tower, 1882

• Star-Crossed Lovers and the Power of Astronomy in Thomas Hardy's Two on a Tower

A Laodicean, 1880-81

• Introduction
• DuMaurier's illustrations with commentaries

The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid, 1883

• Illustrations

Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 1891

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The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved, 1892

• A Quest for the Eternal Feminine Ideal in The Well-Beloved
• Paget's illustrations with commentaries

The Mayor of Casterbridge

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Short Stories

• Hatherall's illustration with commentary

• Text (Arthur's Classic Novels)
• An Introduction
• Reading & Assessment Questions

• text (Arthur's Classic Novels)
• Textual history
• Reading questions
• More Reading Questions — and Five Responses
• Necessary vocabulary)

• Text
• Publication History and Cast of Characters

Poetry

• "After a Journey" (text and discussion)
• "Afterwards" (1917) text — leading questions
• "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave" (1917) text — leading questions
• "At Lulworth Cove A Century Back"
• Barthelemon at Vauxhall
• "The Darkling Thrush" (1900) text — leading questions
• "Drummer Hodge or the Dead Drummer" (1899) text — leading questions
• The Dynasts (discussion — bibliography)
• Time's Laughingstocks (1909) — discussion — leading questions
• "Channel Firing" (1914)
• "Convergence of the Twain"
• "Hap" (1866) text — leading questions
• The Impercipient
• "In Time of 'the Breaking of Nations'" (1915) text
• "The Levelled Churchyard" text — discussion
• "Neutral Tones" (1866) text — leading questions
• "Nobody Comes" text and leading questions
• "The Oxen" (1915) text — commentary — leading questions
• "The Ruined Maid" text — reading questions
• "Where the Picnic Was" — leading questions
• Tess's Lament
• "A Trampwoman's Tragedy" — text
• "The Voice" (text and discussion)
• "Winter Night in Woodland (Old Time)" —text — commentary