Thomas Hardy OM 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. This collection includes the following: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES RETURN OF THE NATIVE THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE JUDE THE OBSCURE A PAIR OF BLUE EYES THE WOODLANDERS SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE THE ROMANTIC ADVENTURES OF A MILKMAID DESPERATE REMEDIES TWO ON A TOWER POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT MOMENTS OF VISION and VERSES A LAODICEAN THE WELL-BELOVED THE DYNASTS LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES A GROUP OF NOBLE DAMES WESSEX TALES A CHANGED MAN AND OTHER TALES THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA