1. "Books to download free": "Project Gutenberg" texts of six Hardy novels.
2. "Books to buy": A link to Amazon.com's home page and (elsewhere on the page) a link to an Amazon.com offering of George Wotton's Thomas Hardy: Towards a Materialist Criticism for $55.00.
3. "Wessex Sound Sample Fire Sample [sic]": Sound clips of readings of a few lines from "Wessex Heights" and "Channel Firing."
4. "A short introduction to Thomas Hardy": A link to the BBC radio home page.
5. "Pictures": Five photographs of Hardy.
6. "Critiques": Four excerpts from George Wotton's Thomas Hardy: Towards a Materialist Criticism .
7. "Hardy Multimedia Pocket Guide": See the comment below.
8. "The user Resource Page": A bulletin board for posting messages.
9. "New Live Chat": A chat room.
10. "Links": Links to four remote sites.

COMMENT:

No information is provided about the qualifications of the master, but the site abounds in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and other writing errors.

1. "Books to download free": With respect to the "Project Gutenberg" texts this site provides, see our GENERAL CAUTION.
2. "Books to buy": See our comment on Amazon.com in Links C 14.
3. "Wessex Sound Sample Fire Sample [sic]": The source of the very brief sound clips is not provided, but the voice is Richard Burton's.
4. "Pictures": The five photographs of Hardy are not captioned or otherwise annotated.
5. "Critiques": The illiteracies notable on this site extend to the "Critiques," which are inaccurately derived from George Wotton's Thomas Hardy: Towards a Materialist Criticism. In fact, those excerpts are taken out of context, stripped of their documentation, misspelled, mispunctuated, misquoted and, in short, reduced to something utterly useless for scholarly, or, indeed, for any other serious reference purpose. Nor is there any indication that they have been reproduced with permission of the copyright holder.
6. "Hardy Multimedia Pocket Guide": This, in fact, offers nothing more than the muddled texts of "Critiques," the brief sound clip of the reading of "Wessex Heights," and a few additional pictures related to Hardy and Max Gate, none of them captioned or otherwise identified.
7. "The user Resource Page": This may be of possible interest to persons surveying student use--and often abuse--of the Internet to complete classroom assignments.
8. "New Live Chat": Given the kinds of inquiries which the "User Resource Page" has attracted, the chat room seems an unlikely place to find informed discussion of Hardy.
9. "Links": Those links to remote sites providing significant information about Hardy are all available from this TTHA site.