Short Stories of Thomas Hardy

Works

The title page from a first edition of Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)

Prose

In 1912, Hardy divided his novels and collected short stories into three classes:[81]

Novels of character and environment

  • The Poor Man and the Lady (1867, unpublished and lost)
  • Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School (1872)
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
  • The Return of the Native (1878)
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (1886)
  • The Woodlanders (1887)
  • Wessex Tales (1888, a collection of short stories)
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (1891)
  • Life's Little Ironies (1894, a collection of short stories)
  • Jude the Obscure (1895)

Romances and fantasies

  • A Pair of Blue Eyes: A Novel (1873)
  • The Trumpet-Major (1880)
  • Two on a Tower: A Romance (1882)
  • A Group of Noble Dames (1891, a collection of short stories)
  • The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament (1897) (first published as a serial from 1892)

Novels of ingenuity

  • Desperate Remedies: A Novel (1871)
  • The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters (1876)
  • A Laodicean: A Story of To-day (1881)

Other

Hardy also produced minor tales; one story, The Spectre of the Real (1894) was written in collaboration with Florence Henniker.[82] An additional short-story collection, beyond the ones mentioned above, is A Changed Man and Other Tales (1913). His works have been collected as the 24-volume Wessex Edition (1912–13) and the 37-volume Mellstock Edition (1919–20). His largely self-written biography appears under his second wife's name in two volumes from 1928 to 1930, as The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840–91 and The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892–1928, now published in a critical one-volume edition as The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy, edited by Michael Millgate (1984).

Short stories

(with date of first publication)

  • "How I Built Myself a House" (1865)
  • "Destiny and a Blue Cloak" (1874)
  • "The Thieves Who Couldn't Stop Sneezing" (1877)
  • "The Duchess of Hamptonshire" (1878) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames)
  • "The Distracted Preacher" (1879) (collected in Wessex Tales)
  • "Fellow-Townsmen" (1880) (collected in Wessex Tales)
  • "The Honourable Laura" (1881) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames)
  • "What the Shepherd Saw" (1881) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories)
  • "A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four" (1882) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "The Three Strangers" (1883) (collected in Wessex Tales)
  • "The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid" (1883) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories)
  • "Interlopers at the Knap" (1884) (collected in Wessex Tales)
  • "A Mere Interlude" (1885) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories)
  • "A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork" (1885) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories)
  • "Alicia's Diary" (1887) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories)
  • "The Waiting Supper" (1887–88) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories)
  • "The Withered Arm" (1888) (collected in Wessex Tales)
  • "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions" (1888) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "The First Countess of Wessex" (1889) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames)
  • "Anna, Lady Baxby" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames)
  • "The Lady Icenway" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames)
  • "Lady Mottisfont" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames)
  • "The Lady Penelope" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames)
  • "The Marchioness of Stonehenge" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames)
  • "Squire Petrick's Lady" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames)
  • "Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames)
  • "The Melancholy Hussar of The German Legion" (1890) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "The Winters and the Palmleys" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "For Conscience' Sake" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "Incident in the Life of Mr. George Crookhill" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "The Doctor's Legend" (1891)
  • "Andrey Satchel and the Parson and Clerk" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "The History of the Hardcomes" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "Netty Sargent's Copyhold" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "On the Western Circuit" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "A Few Crusted Characters: Introduction" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "The Superstitious Man's Story" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "To Please His Wife" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "The Son's Veto" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "Old Andrey's Experience as a Musician" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "Our Exploits At West Poley" (1892–93)
  • "Master John Horseleigh, Knight" (1893) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories)
  • "The Fiddler of the Reels" (1893) (collected in Life's Little Ironies)
  • "An Imaginative Woman" (1894) (collected in Wessex Tales, 1896 edition)
  • "The Spectre of the Real" (1894)
  • "A Committee-Man of 'The Terror'" (1896) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories)
  • "The Duke's Reappearance" (1896) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories)
  • "The Grave by the Handpost" (1897) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories)
  • "A Changed Man" (1900) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories)
  • "Enter a Dragoon" (1900) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories)
  • "Blue Jimmy: The Horse Stealer" (1911)
  • "Old Mrs. Chundle" (1929)
  • "The Unconquerable"(1992)

Poetry collections

  • Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)
  • Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
  • Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses (1909)
  • Satires of Circumstance (1914)
  • Moments of Vision (1917)
  • Collected Poems (1919)
  • Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses (1922)
  • Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)
  • Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)
  • The Complete Poems (Macmillan, 1976)
  • Selected Poems (Edited by Harry Thomas, Penguin, 1993)
  • Hardy: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, 1995)
  • Thomas Hardy: Selected Poetry and Nonfictional Prose (St. Martin's Press, 1996)
  • Selected Poems (Edited by Robert Mezey, Penguin, 1998)
  • Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems (Edited by James Gibson, Palgrave, 2001)

Online poems: Poems by Thomas Hardy[83] at Poetry Foundation and Poems by Thomas Hardy at poemhunter.com[84]

Drama

  • The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon (verse drama)
    • The Dynasts, Part 1 (1904)
    • The Dynasts, Part 2 (1906)
    • The Dynasts, Part 3 (1908)
  • The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse (1923) (one-act play)

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