Editing Thomas Hardy (section)

===Prose===
[[File:Far-From-The-Madding-Crowd-1874-Title-Page.jpg|thumb|upright|The title page from a [[first edition]] of ''[[Far from the Madding Crowd]]'' (1874)]]
In 1912, Hardy divided his novels and collected short stories into three classes:<ref>{{cite book |last=Gilmore |first=Dehn |title=The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art: Fictional Form on Display |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=207}}</ref>

====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* ''[[The Poor Man and the Lady]]'' (1867, unpublished and lost)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====
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* ''[[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]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Thomas Hardy And Florence Henniker: The Writing Of "The Spectre of the Real|first=Richard|last=Purdy|journal=Colby Library Quarterly|volume=1|issue=8|date=October 1944|pages=122–6|url=http://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cq/vol1/iss8/4/|access-date=7 September 2013|archive-date=24 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140524022702/http://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cq/vol1/iss8/4/|url-status=live}}</ref> 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)