Named an Outstanding Academic Book for 1994 by Choice

"This book's main virtue resides in its bringing together a group of Hardy's stories that heretofore Hardy scholars have virtually ignored and that bear their own historic and--generally--intrinsic interest."--Choice

"Ten stories that were not included in collected editions or volumes published in Hardy's lifetime are brought together with overwhelming scholarly and editorial detail and apparatus, eclipsing almost anything available on the great Hardy novels. Perhaps it will set an example."--Nineteenth-Century Literature

"Certainly textual correctness counts, but this book's main virtue resides in bringing together a group of Hardy's stories that heretofore Hardy scholars have virtually ignored and that bear their own historic and - generally - intrinsic interest. In effect, it can help most university libraries complete their Hardy canons."--Language and Literature

"[Dalziel's] scholarly edition of the excluded and collaborative stories offers a great deal....For the Hardy-centric reader...The Excluded and Collaborative Stories stands a model edition, a source that offers much new information and many new perspectives on the literary and biographical text we call "Thomas Hardy."--ELT

"The editor, Pamela Dalziel, is a model of diligence and we must be grateful for the authorative text which has been established."--Review of English Studies