Thomas Hardy: 431 books

Set in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, the novel follows life of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne hoping to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. Although they have been informally betrothed for some time, her father has made financial sacrifices to give his adored only child a superior education and no longer considers Giles good enough for her.

Moments the mightiest pass uncalendared,       And when the Absolute    In backward Time outgave the deedful word       Whereby all life is stirred: "Let one be born and throned whose mould shall constitute The norm of every royal-reckoned...

A young hay-trusser named Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife, Susan. Spurred by alcohol, he decides to auction off his wife and baby daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, to a sailor, Mr. Newson, for five guineas. Once sober the next day, he is too late to recover his family. When he realises that his wife...

This 1888 collection set in the fictional county of Wessex contains six short stories focusing on nineteenth century issues like marriage, status, and sickness— “An Imaginative Woman,” "The Three Strangers," "The Withered Arm," "Fellow-Townsmen," "Interlopers at the Knap," and "The Distracted Preacher.”

A dozen minor novels that have been published in the periodical press collected together.

Of the miscellaneous collection of verse that follows, only four pieces have been published, though many were written long ago, and other partly written. In some few cases the verses were turned into prose and printed as such, it having been unanticipated at that time that they might see the light.

The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue— the faintest tradition of what went on behind the scenes, and this dryness as of dust may be transformed...

A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters. The following stories are featured in this collection: The Son’s Veto, For Conscience' Sake, A Tragedy of Two Ambitions, On the Western Circuit, To Please his Wife, The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion, A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four, The Fiddler of the Reels.

This story of the Mellstock Quire and its old established west-gallery musicians, with some supplementary descriptions of similar officials in Two on a Tower, A Few Crusted Characters, and other places, is intended to be a fairly true picture, at first hand, of the personages, ways, and customs which were common among such orchestral bodies in the villages of the time.

Jeune paysanne innocente placée dans une famille, Tess est séduite puis abandonnée par Alec d’Urberville, un de ses jeunes maîtres. L’enfant qu’elle met au monde meurt en naissant. Dans la puritaine société anglaise de la fin du XIXe siècle, c’est là une faute irrémissible, que la...

This 1887 Wessex novel is set in the small woodland village of Little Hintock, where the woodsman Giles Winterborne has long been unofficially engaged to Grace Melbury.  But when Grace's father succeeds in gaining her entry to higher society, he steers her toward a wealthier man . . . with tragic results.