⁶⁴ Of the seventeen volumes released in 1912, nine were ‘Novels of Character and Environment’, five were ‘Romances and Fantasies’, and three were categorized as ‘Novels of Ingenuity’. The ‘later book’ Hardy refers to could be nearly any one of the ‘Novels of Character and Environment’: after all, his ‘story is [almost] always the story of one woman in her relations to two or three men’, as the New Quarterly survey observed in 1879. Cox (ed.), Thomas Hardy: The Critical Heritage, 62. The scheme is reversed in Jude the Obscure, where one man is shown in relation to two women.