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Time’s Laughingstocks

by Thomas Hardy

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2The Revisitation
  3. 3A Trampwoman’s Tragedy (182–)
  4. 4The Two Rosalinds
  5. 5A Sunday Morning Tragedy (Circa 186–)
  6. 6The House of Hospitalities
  7. 7Bereft
  8. 8John and Jane
  9. 9The Curate’s Kindness — A Workhouse Irony
  10. 10The Flirt’s Tragedy (17–)
  11. 11The Rejected Member’s Wife
  12. 12The Farm-Woman’s Winter
  13. 13Autumn in King’s Hintock Park
  14. 14Shut Out That Moon
  15. 15Reminiscences of a Dancing Man
  16. 16The Dead Man Walking
  17. 17More Love Lyrics
  18. 18Her Definition
  19. 19The Division
  20. 20On the Departure Platform
  21. 21In a Cathedral City
  22. 22“I Say I’ll Seek Her”
  23. 23Her Father
  24. 24At Waking
  25. 25Four Footprints
  26. 26In the Vaulted Way
  27. 27In the Mind’s Eye
  28. 28The End of the Episode
  29. 29The Sigh
  30. 30“In the Night She Came”
  31. 31The Conformers
  32. 32The Dawn After the Dance
  33. 33The Sun on the Letter
  34. 34The Night of the Dance
  35. 35Misconception
  36. 36The Voice of the Thorn
  37. 37From Her in the Country
  38. 38Her Confession
  39. 39To an Impersonator of Rosalind
  40. 40To an Actress
  41. 41The Minute Before Meeting
  42. 42He Abjures Love
  43. 43A Set of Country Songs
  44. 44At Casterbridge Fair
  45. 45The Dark-Eyed Gentleman
  46. 46To Carrey Clavel
  47. 47The Orphaned Old Maid
  48. 48The Spring Call
  49. 49Julie-Jane
  50. 50News for Her Mother
  51. 51The Fiddler
  52. 52The Husband’s View
  53. 53Rose-Ann
  54. 54The Homecoming
  55. 55Pieces Occasional and Various
  56. 56The Rash Bride — An Experience of the Mellstock Quire
  57. 57The Dead Quire
  58. 58The Christening
  59. 59A Dream Question
  60. 60By the Barrows
  61. 61A Wife and Another
  62. 62The Roman Road
  63. 63The Vampirine Fair
  64. 64The Reminder
  65. 65The Rambler
  66. 66Night — in the Old Home
  67. 67After the Last Breath (J. H. 1813–1904)
  68. 68In Childbed
  69. 69The Pine Planters — (Marty South’s Reverie)
  70. 70The Dear
  71. 71One We Knew (M. H. 1772–1857)
  72. 72She Hears the Storm
  73. 73A Wet Night
  74. 74Before Life and After
  75. 75New Year’s Eve
  76. 76God’s Education
  77. 77To Sincerity
  78. 78Panthera
  79. 79The Unborn
  80. 80The Man He Killed
  81. 81Geographical Knowledge — (A Memory of Christiana C—)
  82. 82One Ralph Blossom Soliloquizes
  83. 83The Noble Lady’s Tale (Circa 1790)
  84. 84Unrealized
  85. 85Wagtail and Baby
  86. 86Aberdeen — (April: 1905)
  87. 87George Meredith 1828–1909
  88. 88Yell’ham-Wood’s Story
  89. 89A Young Man’s Epigram on Existence

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