哈代导读：英文版

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PART ONE:THE WRITER AND HIS SETTING
Chronological table
1 HARDY'S 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
Hardy's 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
Hardy's 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 Hardy's texts
INDEX