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This collected edition gathers Thomas Hardy's principal narrative prose of Wessex, his imagined southwest England of heath, dairy, and county town. The novels follow farmers, cottagers, and the rural middle class through courtship, disgrace, and the collision of old custom with new law and money. Companion pieces in such sets typically include the short stories of village rumor and the later books of education and marriage. Each work is independent, though the map and social types recur. The edition is a library of Hardy's fiction, not a single novel and not a biography.

Reprints of six of his most popular novels in a dark green six-volume slipcase.