WESSEX TALES - Complete Series (Illustrated)

Wessex Novels and Tales of Thomas Hardy are set in the south and southwest of England, in the area Hardy named "Wessex" after the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom that existed in this part of that country prior to the unification of England by Æthelstan. These tales depict strong characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.

Wessex Novels:

Under the Greenwood Tree

Far from the Madding Crowd

The Return of the Native

The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Woodlanders

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Jude the Obscure

A Pair of Blue Eyes

The Trumpet-Major

Two on a Tower

The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid

The Well-Beloved

Wessex Tales:

An Imaginative Woman

The Three Strangers

The Withered Arm

Fellow-Townsmen

Interlopers at the Knap

The Distracted Preacher

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) 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 highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England.

His most famous novels include Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure.