Introduction: Dwelling on Hardy -- Apprehension, suspension, abstention: Desperate remedies (1871) -- Distortions and transformations: Under the greenwood tree (1872), A pair of blue eyes (1873) -- Being and dwelling: Far from the madding crowd (1874),The return of the native (1878), Two on a tower (1882) -- Uncommon events: The trumpet major (1880), A laodicean (1881), The mayor of Casterbridge (1886) -- Confessions of the other: The woodlanders (1887), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), Jude the obscure (1895) -- Afterword
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation