Thomas Hardy: His Life and Friends

List of Illustrations - Preface and Acknowledgements - Ancestry and Birth - School and Manor - Further Education - Hicks, Barnes, and Bastow - The Moules of Fordington - Arthur Blomfield and London - First Verse and Fiction - Emma Gifford - Shock, Success and Marriage - Leslie Stephen - 'A Two-Years Idyll' - 'The FAILURE of THINGS' - This Way and That - At Wimborne Minster - Gosse, Dorchester, and The Mayor - Max Gate, The Woodlanders, and Italy - Tales and Tess - Florence Henniker - Jude and Consequences - To the Century's End - The Dynasts - Florence Emily Dugdale - Emma's Death - Aftercourses - In Time of 'the Breaking of Nations' - Age and Youth - Late Drama and T.E. Lawrence - The Coming of the End - His Death and After - In Retrospect - Bibliography and References - General Index - Index to Hardy's Prose and Poetry