Tess of the d'Urbervilles

By Thomas Hardy

Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller,' and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the char...

The Return of the Native

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One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called "the real stuff of tragedy." The heath'...

Jude the Obscure

By Thomas Hardy

Upon its first appearance in 1895, Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marri...

The Mayor of Casterbridge

By Thomas Hardy

One of Hardy’s most powerful novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a lo...

The woodlanders

By Thomas Hardy

Far from the madding crowd

By Thomas Hardy

The Norton Book of Travel

By William Blake, Christopher Columbus, James Boswell, Marco Polo, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Charles Darwin, Paul Fussell, Pedro Vas De Caminha

The Return of the Native: An Authoritative Text, Background and Criticism

By Thomas Hardy

The mayor of Casterbridge: An authoritative text, backgrounds criticism

By Thomas Hardy

Tells the story about a headstrong man who rises to become the richest corn merchant and chief citizen in his town. Despite his great wealth and power, however, his past comes back to haunt him, hi...

Jude the Obscure

By Thomas Hardy