Books by Martin Ray

This work is a textual study of Hardy's four volumes of short stories. It examines the history of the stories' composition and revision from manuscripts through serial publications, galleys, revisions and collected publications, all stages of which show significant alterations.

Assembles some 150 annotated interviews and recollections of Thomas Hardy. The author has selected items having literary or biographical significance, and annotated them with meticulous accuracy and a keen eye for the telling detail. This book reveals Hardy's contemporaneous opinions about his own writings.