LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PART ONE：THE WRITER AND HIS SETTING
Chronological table
1 HARDYS LIFE
Childhood and youth
Tryphena，Emma and the early novels
Architecture and literature
The middle years
Emma，Florence and the later years
2 HARDY THE COUNTRYMAN
William Barnes and provincialism
Social conditions in Dorset
Conclusion：Hardy and Nature
3 HARDY THE VICTORIAN
Hardy，the Romantics and Swinburne
Hardy，the Agnostics and Pessimism
Mill and the idea of liberty
Hardys politics
Hardy and later novelists
PART TWO：CRITICAL SURVEY
4 THE HARDY HERO AND HIS PREDICAMENT
Gabriel Oak
Diggory Venn and Clym Yeobright
Giles Winterbourne
Angel Clare
Jude Fawley
5 THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE
6 THE SHORT STORIES AND DYNASTS
Short stories
The Dynasts
7 SELECTED POEMS
Early poems
Hardys black period
Turn of the century poems
Poems to Emma
Late Poems
PART THREE：REFERENCE SECTION
Map of Wessex
Short biographies
Gazetteer
Further reading
Appendix：serialization and Hardys texts
INDEX