Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Writer, moralist and poet                          

Selected Works:

Prose:

Hardy divided his novels and collected short stories into three classes:

Novels of Character and Environment - 

The Poor Man and the Lady - 1867, unpublished and lost
Under the Greenwood Tree - 1872
Far from the Madding Crowd - 1874
The Return of the Native - 1878
The Mayor of Casterbridge - 1886
The Woodlanders - 1887
Wessex Tales - 1888, a collection of short stories
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - 1891
Life's Little Ironies - 1894, a collection of short stories
Jude the Obscure - 1895

Romances and Fantasies:

A Pair of Blue Eyes - 1873
The Trumpet-Major - 1880
Two on a Tower - 1882
A Group of Noble Dames - 1891, a collection of short stories
The Well-Beloved - 1897 - first published as a serial from 1892.

Novels of Ingenuity:

Desperate Remedies - 1871
The Hand of Ethelberta - 1876
A Laodicean - 1881

Hardy also produced a number of minor tales and a collaborative novel, The Spectre of the Real - 1894. 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 - 1912-1913 and the 37-volume Mellstock Edition - 1919-1920. His largely self-written biography appears under his second wife's name in two volumes from 1928-1930, as The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1891 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
The Distracted Preacher - 1879
Fellow-Townsmen - 1880
The Honourable Laura - 1881
What The Shepherd Saw - 1881
A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four - 1882
The Three Strangers - 1883
The Romantic Adventures Of A Milkmaid - 1883
Interlopers At The Knap - 1884
A Mere Interlude - 1885 - republished in Penguin Great Loves series
A Tryst At An Ancient Earthwork - 1885
Alicia's Diary - 1887
The Waiting Supper - 1887-88
The Withered Arm - 1888
A Tragedy Of Two Ambitions - 1888
The First Countess of Wessex - 1889
Anna, Lady Baxby - 1890
The Lady Icenway - 1890
Lady Mottisfont - 1890
The Lady Penelope - 1890
The Marchioness of Stonehenge - 1890
Squire Petrick's Lady - 1890
Barbara Of The House Of Grebe - 1890
The Melancholy Hussar of The German Legion - 1890
Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir - 1891
The Winters And The Palmleys - 1891
For Conscience' Sake - 1891
Incident in Mr. Crookhill's Life- 1891
The Doctor's Legend - 1891
Andrey Satchel and the Parson and Clerk - 1891
The History of the Hardcomes - 1891
Netty Sargent's Copyhold - 1891
On The Western Circuit - 1891
A Few Crusted Characters: Introduction - 1891
The Superstitious Man's Story - 1891
Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver - 1891
To Please His Wife - 1891
The Son's Veto - 1891
Old Andrey's Experience as a Musician - 1891
Our Exploits At West Poley - 1892-93
Master John Horseleigh, Knight - 1893
The Fiddler of the Reels - 1893
An Imaginative Woman - 1894
The Spectre of the Real - 1894
A Committee-Man of 'The Terror' - 1896
The Duke's Reappearance - 1896
The Grave By The Handpost - 1897
A Changed Man - 1900
Enter a Dragoon - 1900
Blue Jimmy: The Horse Stealer - 1911
Old Mrs. Chundle - 1929
The Unconquerable- 1992
Poetry - not a comprehensive list
The Photograph - 1890
Wessex Poems and Other Verses - 1898
Poems of the Past and Present - 1901
The Man He Killed- 1902
The Dynasts, Part 1 - 1904
The Dynasts, Part 2 - 1906
The Dynasts, Part 3 - 1908
Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - 1909
Satires of Circumstance - 1914
Moments of Vision - 1917

Collected Poems - 1919, part of the Mellstock Edition of his novels and poems.

Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses - 1922
Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles - 1925
Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres - 1928, published posthumously.

Drama:

The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall - 1923