The Works: 24 volumes by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, The Works: 24 volumes , London: Macmillan and Co Limited, 1918-24, 24 Volumes

Wessex Poems and Other Verses: Poems of the Past and the Present, 489 pages, 1918
Time's Laughingstocks and other Verses, 207 pages, 1919
Satires of Circumstance: Lyric and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces, 230 pages, 1919
Tess of The D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, 517 pages, 1920
The Life and Death of The Mayor of Casterbridge: A Story of a Man of Character, 406 pages, 1920, Volume III
A Changed Man: And other Tales, 413 pages, 1920, Volume XVIII
Jude: The Obscure, 514 pages, 1921, Volume XIV
A Pair of Blue Eyes, 454 pages, 1921, Volume VI
A Laodicean, 499 pages, 1921, Volume XI
Under the Greenwood Tree or The Mellstock Quire - A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, 273 pages, 1921, Volume XVI
The Trumpet-Major John Loveday: A Soldier in the War with Buonaparte and Robert his brother first Mate in the Merchant Service, A Tale, 383 pages, 1921, Volume IX
Two on a Tower, 333 pages, 1922, Volume VII
Far from the Madding Crowd, 475 pages, 1922, Volume II
Desperate Remedies: A Novel, 470 pages, 1922, Volume XII
Life's Little Ironies: A Set of Tales with some colloquial Sketches entitled a Few Crusted Characters, 301 pages, 1922, Volume XIV
A Group of Noble Dames, 271 pages, 1922, Volume XV
The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament, 338 pages, 1922, Volume XVII
The Return of the Native, 507 pages, 1922
The Woodlanders, 458 pages + 1 map of Wessex, 1923, Volume VIII
Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses, 256 pages, 1923
Wessex Tales: That Is to Say an Imaginative Woman, the Three Strangers, the Withered Arm, Fellow-Townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap; And the Distracted Preacher, 291 pages, 1923, Volume XIII
The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters, 479 pages, 1923, Volume X
The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon, Parts I and II, 322 pages, 1924
The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon, Parts III, The Famous Tragedy of The Queen of Cornwall, 569 pages, 1924

Soft-bound in publisher's maroon full-leather with embossed gilt illustration and lettering to upper covers and decorative gilt panels to spine; gilt lettered. Top-edge gilt. Each volume has a map (each)
6.75 x 4.25 in (17.5 x 11 cm) (each)

This is the 1st pocket edition of this collection of poems.

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was extremely critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native Southwest England.

While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death, his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, and Philip Larkin. (Source: Wikipedia)

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