Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy — 5 titles in the rankings, first published between 1874 and 1895. They average 7.6, below the 7.8 the whole catalogue averages.
Editor’s note English novelist and poet whose Wessex novels set ordinary rural lives against chance, class and unforgiving fate. Tess of the d’Urbervilles is by far the most read but the lowest rated here, perhaps because so many meet it at school; Far from the Madding Crowd, with its headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene, is the gentlest entry point. Jude the Obscure, his bleakest novel, rates highest; after the outrage it caused he gave up fiction for poetry.
- Ranked titles
- 5 books
- Average score
- 7.6
- Total ratings
- 818
- First published
- 1874–1895
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Books by Thomas Hardy
Other books by Thomas Hardy
Titles we know of but do not rank — they have not gathered enough reader ratings, or our sources do not agree on where they belong.
- 1871Desperate Remedies
- 1872Under the Greenwood Tree
- 1872Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire
- 1873A Pair of Blue Eyes
- 1876The Hand of Ethelberta
- 1880The Trumpet-Major
- 1881A Laodicean
- 1882Two on a Tower
- 1887The Woodlanders
- 1888Wessex Tales
- 1891A Group of Noble Dames
- 1894Life's Little Ironies
- 1897The Well-Beloved
- 1898Wessex Poems and Other Verses
- 1901Poems of the Past and the Present
- 1904The dynasts
- 1909Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses
- 1913A Changed Man and Other Tales
- 1914Satires of Circumstance
- 1917Moments of Vision
- 1919Collected Poems
- 1922Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses
- 1928Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres
- 1929Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles
- 1992An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress and Other Stories
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