The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy

4 total works

Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

Published 2 December 1878

Critical essays, and selections from other works accompany the text of the novel.

Under the Greenwood Tree

by Thomas Hardy

Published December 1935

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The Woodlanders

by Thomas Hardy

Published December 1934

This is the novel that was Hardy's own favorite "as a story." It appears here for the first time critically edited, in a text based on the manuscript but incorporating Hardy's later revisions.

Desperate Remedies

by Thomas Hardy

Published December 1951

Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'.

Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston.
Blackmail, murder and romance are among the ingredients of Hardy's first published novel, and in it he draws blithely on the 'sensation novel' perfected by Wilkie Collins. Several perceptive critics praised the author as a novelist with a future when Desperate Remedies appeared anonymously in 1871. In its depiction of country life and insight into psychology and sexuality it already bears the unmistakable imprint of Hardy's genius.