A Laodicean is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1881. Set in the more technologically advanced contemporaneous age, the plot exhibits devices uncommon for Hardy, such as falsified telegrams and faked photographs. Other notable books by Thomas Hardy include Jude the Obscure, Wessex Tales, Under the Greenwood Tree, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, Far from the Madding Crowd, A Pair of Blue Eyes, and The Woodlanders.