This is the annotated edition including a rare biographical essay on the life and works of the author.

This compilation of Thomas Hardy's short stories is one of the most complete on the book market. Every single story was tracked down and integrated into this book. Hours of enjoyable reading lies ahead of you because Hardy was a real genius among the English fiction writers.

From the contents:

A Changed Man

The Waiting Supper

Alicia's Diary

The Grave By The Handpost

Enter A Dragoon

A Tryst At An Ancient Earth Work

What The Shepherd Saw: A Tale Of Four Moonlight Nights

A Committee-Man Of 'The Terror'

Master John Horseleigh, Knight

The Duke's Reappearance—A Family Tradition

A Mere Interlude

The First Countess Of Wessex

Barbara Of The House Of Grebe

The Marchioness Of Stonehenge

Lady Mottisfont

The Lady Icenway

Squire Petrick's Lady

Anna, Lady Baxby

The Lady Penelope

The Duchess Of Hamptonshire

The Honourable Laura

The Son's Veto

For Conscience' Sake

A Tragedy Of Two Ambitions

On The Western Circuit

To Please His Wife

The Melancholy Hussar Of The German Legion

The Fiddler Of The Reels

A Tradition Of Eighteen Hundred And Four

A Few Crusted Characters

Tony Kytes, The Arch-Deceiver

The History Of The Hardcomes

The Superstitious Man's Story

Andrey Satchel And The Parson And Clerk

Old Andrey's Experience As A Musician

Absent-Mindedness In A Parish Choir

The Winters And The Palmleys

Incident In The Life Of Mr. George Crookhill

Netty Sargent's Copyhold

An Imaginative Woman

The Three Strangers

... and many more ...