Acknowledgements - Note on the Texts - Preface & Chronology - Introductory: Thomas Hardy, George Moore and Others - 'Now It Remains': Thomas Hardy and D.H.Lawrence - 'An Undying Underground Stream': Thomas Hardy and John Cowper Powys - Three 'Nostalgicians': Thomas Hardy, Marcel Proust and Henri Alain-Fournier - 'The Immortal Puzzle': Thomas Hardy and John Fowles - 'The Pathetic Side of the World': Thomas Hardy and Theodore Dreiser - 'Canst Thou Be Virgil?': A Hardy Legacy in the Novel - Select Bibliography - Index