List of Works

A Pair of Blue Eyes

Far From the Madding Crowd

The Hand of Ethelberta

Jude the Obscure

The Return of the Native

The Trumpet-Major

A Laodicean

The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved

The Mayor of Casterbridge

"[W]ar makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading."

"A Plot, or Tragedy, should arise from the gradual closing in of a situation that comes of ordinary human passions, prejudices, and ambitions, by reason of the characters taking no trouble to ward off the disastrous events produced by the said passions, prejudices, and ambitions."