This Website, run by Yale University, is the definitive source for Thomas Hardy information on the Web. The page includes sections on Hardy's life, maps of the area he lived in, study and analysis of his poetry, novels, shorts stories, and plays, and news about current Thomas Hardy related events.

Thomas Hardy texts at Bibliomania
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/26/frameset.html

The Thomas Hardy section at "Bibliomania" contains the complete text of Tess of the d'Urbervilles with an accompanying study guide and excerpts from other popular works.

The Life of Thomas Hardy: A Chronology
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/el/hardy/pages/chronology.htm

An in-depth look at the important dates in the life of Thomas Hardy in addition to other biographical material.

BIOGRAPHY
Thomas Hardy (b. 1840) was born in Higher Brockhampton near Dorchester, a town that would become the center of his fictional Wessex. At 22 Hardy moved to London to become a poet, but found more success publishing his fiction. Hardy published his first novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873, but didn't reach notoriety until his next novel, Far From the Maddening Crowd, published a year later. Hardy continued to produce a stream of historically famous novels including The Return of the Native (1878), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1896). After Jude the Obscure, Hardy turned his attention back to poetry, publishing Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898), Poems of the Past and Present (1902), and Satires of Circumstance (1914). Accomplished poets such as W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and Dylan Thomas have all cited Hardy as a strong influence. Thomas Hardy died on January 11, 1928.