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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Thomas Hardy, by Thomas Hardy This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Thomas Hardy Author: Thomas Hardy Editor: David Widger Release Date: November 7, 2018 [EBook #58250] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INDEX OF THE PG WORKS OF THOMAS HARDY *** Produced by David Widger INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF THOMAS HARDY Compiled by David Widger HARDY CONTENTS Click on the ## before each title to view a linked table of contents for each of the twelve volumes. Click on the title itself to open the original online file. ## FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD ## TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES ## RETURN OF THE NATIVE ## THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE ## JUDE THE OBSCURE ## A PAIR OF BLUE EYES ## THE WOODLANDERS ## SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE THE ROMANTIC ADVENTURES OF A MILKMAID ## DESPERATE REMEDIES TWO ON A TOWER ## POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT ## MOMENTS OF VISION and VERSES ## A LAODICEAN ## THE WELL-BELOVED THE DYNASTS ## LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER ## LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES ## A GROUP OF NOBLE DAMES ## WESSEX TALES ## A CHANGED MAN AND OTHER TALES ## THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA These last five titles (italicized) are Project Gutenberg ebooks which originally contained no table of contents--a table of contents has been produced for them in the files inserted below. TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD By Thomas Hardy CONTENTS Preface I. Description of Farmer Oak—An Incident II. Night—The Flock—An Interior—Another Interior III. A Girl on Horseback—Conversation IV. Gabriel's Resolve—The Visit—The Mistake V. Departure of Bathsheba—A Pastoral Tragedy VI. The Fair—The Journey—The Fire VII. Recognition—A Timid Girl VIII. The Malthouse—The Chat—News IX. The Homestead—A Visitor—Half-Confidences X. Mistress and Men XI. Outside the Barracks—Snow—A Meeting XII. Farmers—A Rule—An Exception XIII. Sortes Sanctorum—The Valentine XIV. Effect of the Letter—Sunrise XV. A Morning Meeting—The Letter Again XVI. All Saints' and All Souls' XVII. In the Market-Place XVIII. Boldwood in Meditation—Regret XIX. The Sheep-Washing—The Offer XX. Perplexity—Grinding the Shears—A Quarrel XXI. Troubles in the Fold—A Message XXII. The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers XXIII. Eventide—A Second Declaration XXIV. The Same Night—The Fir Plantation XXV. The New Acquaintance Described XXVI. Scene on the Verge of the Hay-Mead XXVII. Hiving the Bees XXVIII. The Hollow Amid the Ferns XXIX. Particulars of a Twilight Walk XXX. Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes XXXI. Blame—Fury XXXII. Night—Horses Tramping XXXIII. In the Sun—A Harbinger XXXIV. Home Again—A Trickster XXXV. At an Upper Window XXXVI. Wealth in Jeopardy—The Revel XXXVII. The Storm—The Two Together XXXVIII. Rain—One Solitary Meets Another XXXIX. Coming Home—A Cry XL. On Casterbridge Highway XLI. Suspicion—Fanny Is Sent For XLII. Joseph and His Burden—Buck's Head XLIII. Fanny's Revenge XLIV. Under a Tree—Reaction XLV. Troy's Romanticism XLVI. The Gurgoyle: Its Doings XLVII. Adventures by the Shore XLVIII. Doubts Arise—Doubts Linger XLIX. Oak's Advancement—A Great Hope L. The Sheep Fair—Troy Touches His Wife's Hand LI. Bathsheba Talks with Her Outrider LII. Converging Courses LIII. Concurritur—Horae Momento LIV. After the Shock LV. The March Following—"Bathsheba Boldwood" LVI. Beauty in Loneliness—After All LVII. A Foggy Night and Morning—Conclusion TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES A Pure Woman Faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy CONTENTS Phase the First: The Maiden Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Phase the Second: Maiden No More Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Phase the Third: The Rally Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Chapter XVIII Chapter XIX Chapter XX Chapter XXI Chapter XXII Chapter XXIII Chapter XXIV Phase the Fourth: The Consequence Chapter XXV Chapter XXVI Chapter XXVII Chapter XXVIII Chapter XXIX Chapter XXX Chapter XXXI Chapter XXXII Chapter XXXIII Chapter XXXIV Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays Chapter XXXV Chapter XXXVI Chapter XXXVII Chapter XXXVIII Chapter XXXIX Chapter XL Chapter XLI Chapter XLII Chapter XLIII Chapter XLIV Phase the Sixth: The Convert Chapter XLV Chapter XLVI Chapter XLVII Chapter XLVIII Chapter XLIX Chapter L Chapter LI Chapter LII Phase the Seventh: Fulfilment Chapter LIII Chapter LIV Chapter LV Chapter LVI Chapter LVII Chapter LVIII Chapter LIX THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE by Thomas Hardy CONTENTS PREFACE BOOK ONE THE THREE WOMEN 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 3 The Custom of the Country 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road 5 Perplexity among Honest People 6 The Figure against the Sky 7 Queen of Night 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 11 The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman BOOK TWO THE ARRIVAL 1 Tidings of the Comer 2 The People at Blooms-End Make Ready 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 5 Through the Moonlight 6 The Two Stand Face to Face 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart BOOK THREE THE FASCINATION 1 “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is” 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current BOOK FOUR THE CLOSED DOOR 1 The Rencounter by the Pool 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed 5 The Journey across the Heath 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil BOOK FIVE THE DISCOVERY 1 “Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery” 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter 7 The Night of the Sixth of November 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together BOOK SIX AFTERCOURSES 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward 2 Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE by Thomas Hardy CHAPTERS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. JUDE THE OBSCURE By Thomas Hardy CONTENTS PART FIRST At Marygreen Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI PART SECOND At Christminster Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII PART THIRD At Melchester Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X PART FOURTH At Shaston Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI PART FIFTH At Aldbrickham and Elsewhere Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII PART SIXTH At Christminster Again Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI A PAIR OF BLUE EYES by Thomas Hardy CONTENTS PREFACE Chapter I 'A fair vestal, throned in the west' Chapter II 'Twas on the evening of a winter's day.' Chapter III 'Melodious birds sing madrigals' Chapter IV 'Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap.' Chapter V 'Bosom'd high in tufted trees.' Chapter VI 'Fare thee weel awhile!' Chapter VII 'No more of me you knew, my love!' Chapter VIII 'Allen-a-Dale is no baron or lord.' Chapter IX 'Her father did fume' Chapter X 'Beneath the shelter of an aged tree.' Chapter XI 'Journeys end in lovers meeting.' Chapter XII 'Adieu! she cries, and waved her lily hand.' Chapter XIII 'He set in order many proverbs.' Chapter XIV 'We frolic while 'tis May.' Chapter XV 'A wandering voice.' Chapter XVI 'Then fancy shapes-as fancy can.' Chapter XVII 'Her welcome, spoke in faltering phrase.' Chapter XVIII 'He heard her musical pants.' Chapter XIX 'Love was in the next degree.' Chapter XX 'A distant dearness in the hill.' Chapter XXI 'On thy cold grey stones, O sea!' Chapter XXII 'A woman's way.' Chapter XXIII 'Should auld acquaintance be forgot?' Chapter XXIV 'Breeze, bird, and flower confess the hour.' Chapter XXV Mine own familiar friend.' Chapter XXVI 'To that last nothing under earth.' Chapter XXVII 'How should I greet thee?' Chapter XXVIII 'I lull a fancy, trouble-tost.' Chapter XXIX 'Care, thou canker.' Chapter XXX 'Vassal unto Love.' Chapter XXXI 'A worm i' the bud.' Chapter XXXII 'Had I wist before I kist' Chapter XXXIII 'O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery.' Chapter XXXIV 'Yea, happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.' Chapter XXXV 'And wilt thou leave me thus?-say nay-say nay!' Chapter XXXVI 'The pennie's the jewel that beautifies a'.' Chapter XXXVII 'After many days.' Chapter XXXVIII 'Jealousy is cruel as the grave.' Chapter XXXIX 'Each to the loved one's side.' Chapter XL 'Welcome, proud lady.' THE WOODLANDERS By Thomas Hardy CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXI CHAPTER XXXII CHAPTER XXXIII CHAPTER XXXIV CHAPTER XXXV CHAPTER XXXVI CHAPTER XXXVII CHAPTER XXXVIII CHAPTER XXXIX CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XLI CHAPTER XLII CHAPTER XLIII CHAPTER XLIV CHAPTER XLV CHAPTER XLVI CHAPTER XLVII CHAPTER XLVIII SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE LYRICS AND REVERIES WITH MISCELLANEOUS PIECES By Thomas Hardy CONTENTS Lyrics and Reveries— PAGE In Front of the Landscape 3 Channel Firing 7 The Convergence of the Twain 9 The Ghost of the Past 12 After the Visit 14 To Meet, or Otherwise 16 The Difference 18 The Sun on the Bookcase 19 “When I set out for Lyonnesse” 20 A Thunderstorm in Town 21 The Torn Letter 22 Beyond the Last Lamp 25 The Face at the Casement 27 Lost Love 30 “My spirit will not haunt the mound” 31 Wessex Heights 32 In Death divided 35 The Place on the Map 37 Where the Picnic was 39 The Schreckhorn 41 A Singer asleep 42 A Plaint to Man 45 God’s Funeral 47 Spectres that grieve 52 “Ah, are you digging on my grave?” 54 Satires of Circumstance— I. At Tea 59 II. In Church 60 III. By her Aunt’s Grave 61 IV. In the Room of the Bride-elect 62 V. At the Watering-place 63 VI. In the Cemetery 64 VII. Outside the Window 65 VIII. In the Study 66 IX. At the Altar-rail 67 X. In the Nuptial Chamber 68 XI. In the Restaurant 69 XII. At the Draper’s 70 XIII. On the Death-bed 71 XIV. Over the Coffin 72 XV. In the Moonlight 73 Lyrics and Reveries (continued)— Self-unconscious 77 The Discovery 80 Tolerance 81 Before and after Summer 82 At Day-close in November 83 The Year’s Awakening 84 Under the Waterfall 85 The Spell of the Rose 88 St. Launce’s revisited 90 Poems of 1912–13– The Going 95 Your Last Drive 97 The Walk 99 Rain on a Grace 100 “I found her out there” 102 p. vi p. vii Without Ceremony 104 Lament 105 The Haunter 107 The Voice 109 His Visitor 110 A Circular 112 A Dream or No 113 After a Journey 115 A Death-ray recalled 117 Beeny Cliff 119 At Castle Boterel 121 Places 123 The Phantom Horsewoman 125 Miscellaneous Pieces— The Wistful Lady 129 The Woman in the Rye 131 The Cheval-Glass 132 The Re-enactment 134 Her Secret 140 “She charged me” 141 The Newcomer’s Wife 142 A Conversation at Dawn 143 A King’s Soliloquy 152 The Coronation 154 Aquae Sulis 157 Seventy-four and Twenty 160 The Elopement 161 “I rose up as my custom is” 163 A Week 165 Had you wept 167 Bereft, she thinks she dreams 169 In the British Museum 170 In the Servants’ Quarters 172 The Obliterate Tomb 175 “Regret not me” 183 The Recalcitrants 185 Starlings on the Roof 186 The Moon looks in 187 The Sweet Hussy 188 The Telegram 189 The Moth-signal 191 Seen by the Waits 193 The Two Soldiers 194 The Death of Regret 195 In the Days of Crinoline 197 The Roman Gravemounds 199 The Workbox 201 The Sacrilege 203 The Abbey Mason 210 The Jubilee of a Magazine 222 The Satin Shoes 224 Exeunt Omnes 227 p. viii p. ix A Poet 228 Postscript— “Men who march away” 229 DESPERATE REMEDIES By Thomas Hardy 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 EVENTS OF TEN WEEKS X. THE EVENTS OF A DAY AND NIGHT XI. THE EVENTS OF FIVE DAYS XII. THE EVENTS OF TEN MONTHS XIII. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY XIV. THE EVENTS OF FIVE WEEKS XV. THE EVENTS OF THREE WEEKS XVI. THE EVENTS OF ONE WEEK XVII. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY XVIII. THE EVENTS OF THREE DAYS XIX. THE EVENTS OF A DAY AND NIGHT XX. THE EVENTS OF THREE HOURS XXI. THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN HOURS SEQUEL POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT By Thomas Hardy CONTENTS PAGE V.R. 1819–1901 231 WAR POEMS— Embarcation 235 Departure 237 The Colonel’s Soliloquy 239 The Going of the Battery 242 At the War Office 245 A Christmas Ghost-Story 247 The Dead Drummer 249 A Wife in London 251 The Souls of the Slain 253 Song of the Soldiers’ Wives 260 The Sick God 263 POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE— Genoa and the Mediterranean 269 Shelley’s Skylark 272 In the Old Theatre, Fiesole 274 Rome: on the Palatine 276 ,, Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter 278 ,, The Vatican: Sala Delle Muse 280 ,, At the Pyramid of Cestius 283 Lausanne: In Gibbon’s Old Garden 286 Zermatt: To the Matterhorn 288 The Bridge of Lodi 290 On an Invitation to the United States 295 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS— The Mother Mourns 299 “I said to Love” 305 A Commonplace Day 307 At a Lunar Eclipse 310 The Lacking Sense 312 To Life 316 Doom and She 318 The Problem 321 The Subalterns 323 The Sleep-worker 325 The Bullfinches 327 God-Forgotten 329 The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God 333 By the Earth’s Corpse 336 Mute Opinion 339 To an Unborn Pauper Child 341 To Flowers from Italy in Winter 344 On a Fine Morning 346 To Lizbie Browne 348 Song of Hope 352 The Well-Beloved 354 Her Reproach 358 The Inconsistent 360 A Broken Appointment 362 “Between us now” 364 “How great my Grief” 366 “I need not go” 367 The Coquette, and After 369 A Spot 371 Long Plighted 373 The Widow 375 At a Hasty Wedding 378 The Dream-Follower 379 His Immortality 380 The To-be-Forgotten 382 Wives in the Sere 385 The Superseded 387 An August Midnight 389 The Caged Thrush Freed and Home Again 391 Birds at Winter Nightfall 393 p. xii p. xiii The Puzzled Game-Birds 394 Winter in Durnover Field 395 The Last Chrysanthemum 397 The Darkling Thrush 399 The Comet at Yalbury or Yell’ham 402 Mad Judy 403 A Wasted Illness 405 A Man 408 The Dame of Athelhall 412 The Seasons of her Year 416 The Milkmaid 418 The Levelled Churchyard 420 The Ruined Maid 422 The Respectable Burgher on “the Higher Criticism” 425 Architectural Masks 428 The Tenant-for-Life 430 The King’s Experiment 432 The Tree: an Old Man’s Story 435 Her Late Husband 439 The Self-Unseeing 441 De Profundis i. 443 De Profundis ii. 445 De Profundis iii. 448 The Church-Builder 451 The Lost Pyx: a Mediæval Legend 457 Tess’s Lament 462 The Supplanter: A Tale 465 IMITATIONS, Etc.— Sapphic Fragment 473 Catullus: xxxi 474 After Schiller 476 Song: From Heine 477 From Victor Hugo 479 Cardinal Bembo’s Epitaph on Raphael 480 RETROSPECT— “I have Lived with Shades” 483 Memory and I 486 ΑΓΝΩΣΤΩ. ΘΕΩ 489 MOMENTS OF VISION AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSES By Thomas Hardy CONTENTS PAGE Moments of Vision 1 The Voice of Things 2 “Why be at pains?” 3 “We sat at the window” 4 Afternoon Service at Mellstock 5 p. xiv At the Wicket-gate 6 In a Museum 7 Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune 8 At the Word “Farewell” 11 First Sight of Her and After 13 The Rival 14 Heredity 15 “You were the sort that men forget” 16 She, I, and They 17 Near Lanivet, 1872 18 Joys of Memory 20 To the Moon 21 Copying Architecture in an Old Minster 22 To Shakespeare 24 Quid hic agis? 27 On a Midsummer Eve 30 Timing Her 31 Before Knowledge 34 The Blinded Bird 35 “The wind blew words” 36 The Faded Face 37 The Riddle 38 The Duel 39 At Mayfair Lodgings 42 To my Father’s Violin 44 The Statue of Liberty 47 The Background and the Figure 50 The Change 51 Sitting on the Bridge 54 The Young Churchwarden 56 “I travel as a phantom now” 57 Lines to a Movement in Mozart’s E-flat Symphony 58 “In the seventies” 60 The Pedigree 62 This Heart. A Woman’s Dream 65 Where they lived 68 The Occultation 69 Life laughs Onward 70 The Peace-offering 71 “Something tapped” 72 The Wound 73 A Merrymaking in Question 74 “I said and sang her excellence” 75 A January Night. 1879 77 A Kiss 78 The Announcement 79 The Oxen 80 The Tresses 81 The Photograph 82 On a Heath 84 An Anniversary 85 “By the Runic Stone” 87 p. vi p. vii The Pink Frock 88 Transformations 89 In her Precincts 90 The Last Signal 91 The House of Silence 93 Great Things 95 The Chimes 97 The Figure in the Scene 98 “Why did I sketch” 99 Conjecture 100 The Blow 101 Love the Monopolist 103 At Middle-field Gate in February 105 The Youth who carried a Light 106 The Head above the Fog 108 Overlooking the River Stour 109 The Musical Box 111 On Sturminster Foot-bridge 113 Royal Sponsors 114 Old Furniture 116 A Thought in Two Moods 118 The Last Performance 119 “You on the tower” 120 The Interloper 122 Logs on the Hearth 124 The Sunshade 126 The Ageing House 128 The Caged Goldfinch 129 At Madame Tussaud’s in Victorian Years 130 The Ballet 132 The Five Students 133 The Wind’s Prophecy 135 During Wind and Rain 137 He prefers her Earthly 139 The Dolls 140 Molly gone 141 A Backward Spring 143 Looking Across 144 At a Seaside Town in 1869 146 The Glimpse 149 The Pedestrian 151 “Who’s in the next room?” 153 At a Country Fair 155 The Memorial Brass: 186- 156 Her Love-birds 158 Paying Calls 160 The Upper Birch-Leaves 161 “It never looks like summer” 162 Everything comes 163 The Man with a Past 164 He fears his Good Fortune 166 He wonders about Himself 167 p. viii p. ix

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