above, is A Changed Man and Other Tales (1913). His works have been collected as the 24-volume Wessex Edition (1912–13) and the 37-volume Mellstock Edition (1919–20). His largely self-written biography appears under his second wife's name in two volumes from 1928 to 1930, as The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840–91 and The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892–1928, now published in a critical one-volume edition as The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy, edited by Michael Millgate (1984). Short stories (with date of first publication) "How I Built Myself a House" (1865) "Destiny and a Blue Cloak" (1874) "The Thieves Who Couldn't Stop Sneezing" (1877) "The Duchess of Hamptonshire" (1878) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) "The Distracted Preacher" (1879) (collected in Wessex Tales) "Fellow-Townsmen" (1880) (collected in Wessex Tales) "The Honourable Laura" (1881) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) "What the Shepherd Saw" (1881) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories) "A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four" (1882) (collected in Life's Little Ironies) "The Three Strangers" (1883) (collected in Wessex Tales) "The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid" (1883) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories) "Interlopers at the Knap" (1884) (collected in Wessex Tales) "A Mere Interlude" (1885) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories) "A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork" (1885) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories) "Alicia's Diary" (1887) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories) "The Waiting Supper" (1887–88) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories) "The Withered Arm" (1888) (collected in Wessex Tales) "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions" (1888) (collected in Life's Little Ironies) "The First Countess of Wessex" (1889) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) "Anna, Lady Baxby" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) "The Lady Icenway" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) "Lady Mottisfont" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) "The Lady Penelope" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) "The Marchioness of Stonehenge" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) "Squire Petrick's Lady" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) "Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) "The Melancholy Hussar of The German Legion" (1890) (collected in Life's Little Ironies) "Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies) "The Winters and the Palmleys" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies) "For Conscience'