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Volume 1 Contemporary reviews: "Desperate Remedies"; "Under theGreenwood Trees"; "A Pair of Blue Eyes"; "Far from the Madding Crowd", "TheReturn of the Native"; "The Trumpet-Major"; "A Laodicean"; "Two on a Tower";"The Mayor of Casterbridge"; "The Woodlanders"; "Tess of the d'Urbervilles";"Jude the Obscure"; "The Well-Beloved"; "Wessex Poems"; Poems of the Past andPresent"; "The Dynasts" (1904, 1906, 1908); "Time's Laughingstocks and OtherVerses"; "Satires and Circumstance". Volume 2 The writer and the poet:contemporary studies; Hardy the poet; "The Dynasts" (1904, 1906, 1908).Volume 3 Writers, writing and Wessex: contemporary essays and responses;writers on the writing; Hardy and Wessex. Volume 4 A 20th-century overview:the novels; Hardy - the general context; a postscript - letter on "The PoorMan and the Lady", Alexander Macmillan.