The Trumpet-Major
By: Thomas Hardy

Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. In The Trumpet Major, the tale of a woman courted by three competing suitors during the Napoleonic wars, he explores the subversive effects of ordinary human desire and conflicting loyalties on systematized versions of history.

The Well-Beloved
By: Thomas Hardy

This is the partly autobiographical story of one man's courtship of three generations of women.

Desperate Remedies
By: Thomas Hardy

Modern readers find in the novel a groundbreaking look at the position of women, female sexuality, and the constraints of the English class system.

Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy

A young man falls victim to his own obsession with an amorous farm girl in this classic novel of fate and unrequited love.

Jude the Obscure
By: Thomas Hardy

Jude The Obscure, an almost unbearably sad story about love and sexual desire mapped into the peculiar English matrixes of class and destiny in the Victorian 19th century, has come to be recognized as one of Hardy's most important novels.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles
By: Thomas Hardy

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.

The Hand of Ethelberta
By: Thomas Hardy

This novel traces the life of Ethelberta Chickerel, who comes from a family of servants and workmen but lifts herself, via marriage, into high intellectual society, becoming a writer, poet and storyteller.

The Return of the Native
By: Thomas Hardy

Classic novel of two people caught up in their passion for each other and conflicting ambitions.

The Woodlanders
By: Thomas Hardy

In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in Dorset, Hardy narrates the rivalry for the hand of Grace Melbury between a simple and loyal woodlander and an exotic and sophisticated outsider.

Two on a Tower
By: Thomas Hardy

First published in 1882, Two on a Tower charts the tragic romance of Lady Viviette Constantine and Swithin St. Cleve, who is both Lady Viviette's social inferior and ten years her junior. It is a moving depiction of modern love and a superb novel of ideas.

Under the Greenwood Tree
By: Thomas Hardy

Under the Greenwood Tree is Thomas Hardy's first Wessex novel, a world that rivals that of Balzac and Dickens, but instead of focusing on life in the city, Hardy instead focuses on the happenings of rural life.

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A Laodicean: A Story of To-Day
By: Thomas Hardy

A Laodicean features a heroine torn between the dilapidated aristocratic romance of the past and the energetic technocracy of the modern world. The World's Classics edition of A Laodicean is unique in its use of the original text of 1881.