Tess of the d’Urbervilles A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented By Thomas Hardy Transcribed by Steve Menyhert (phred sit.sps.mot.com) Proofread by Meredith Ricker Contents Phase the First: The Maiden, I-XI Phase the Second: Maiden No More, XII-XV Phase the Third: The Rally, XVI-XXIV Phase the Fourth: The Consequence, XXV-XXXIV Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays, XXXV-XLIV
Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with by Thomas Hardy
This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk, from the 1919 Macmillan and Co edition. SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE WITH MISCELLANEOUS PIECES by Thomas Hardy Contents: Lyrics and Reveries In Front of the Landscape Channel Firing The Convergence of the Twain The Ghost of the Past After the Visit To Meet, or Otherwise The Difference
Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy PREFACE The date at which the following events are assumed to have occurred may be set down as between 1840 and 1850, when the old watering place herein called “Budmouth” still retained sufficient afterglow from its Georgian gaiety and prestige to lend it an absorbing attractiveness to
Poems of the Past and the Present by Thomas Hardy
This etext was produced from the 1919 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT By Thomas Hardy Contents: V.R. 1819-1901 WAR POEMS – EMBARCATION DEPARTURE THE COLONEL’S SOLILOQUY THE GOING OF THE BATTERY AT THE WAR OFFICE, LONDON A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY THE DEAD DRUMMER A WIFE
Moments of Vision by Thomas Hardy
This etext was produced from the 1919 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk MOMENTS OF VISION AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSES by Thomas Hardy Contents: Moments of Vision The Voice of Things “Why be at pains?” “We sat at the window” Afternoon Service at Mellstock At the Wicket-gate In a Museum Apostrophe to an
Life’s Little Ironies and a Few Crusted Characters by Thomas Hardy
LIFE’S LITTLE IRONIES Contents: 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 A Few Crusted Characters THE SON’S VETO CHAPTER I To the eyes of a man viewing it from
Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1922 Macmillan and Co. edition. LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER WITH MANY OTHER VERSES Contents: Apology Weathers The maid of Keinton Mandeville Summer Schemes Epeisodia Faintheart in a Railway Train At Moonrise and Onwards The Garden Seat Barthelemon at Vauxhall “I sometimes think” Jezreel A Jog-trot Pair “The
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
THE schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry. The miller at Cresscombe lent him the small white tilted cart and horse to carry his goods to the city of his destination, about twenty miles off, such a vehicle proving of quite sufficient size for the departing teacher’s effects.
Far from The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
In reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of “Far from the Madding Crowd” as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word “Wessex” from the pages of early English history, and give it a fictitious significance as the existing name of the district once included in that extinct kingdom.
Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy
DESPERATE REMEDIES CONTENTS PREFATORY NOTE I. THE EVENTS OF THIRTY YEARS II. THE EVENTS OF A FORTNIGHT III. THE EVENTS OF EIGHT DAYS IV. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY V. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY VI. THE EVENTS OF TWELVE HOURS VII. THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN DAYS VIII. THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN DAYS IX. THE
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy ‘A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.’ PREFACE The following chapters were written at a time when the craze for indiscriminate church-restoration had just reached the remotest nooks of western England,
A Laodicean by Thomas HardyOr, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-Day.
This etext was produced from the 1907 Macmillan and Co. edition by Les Bowler, St. Ives, Dorset. A LAODICEAN: A STORY OF TO-DAY by Thomas Hardy CONTENTS. PREFACE CHAPTERS BOOK THE FIRST. GEORGE SOMERSET. I – XV. BOOK THE SECOND. DARE AND HAVILL. I – VII. BOOK THE THIRD. DE STANCY. I – XI. BOOK