Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers.
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Dip into this delightful volume of short stories from famed British author Thomas Hardy.
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In the various short stories, Hardy writes of the true nature of nineteenth century marriage and its inherent restrictions, the use grammar as a diluted form of thought, the disparities created by the role of class status in determining ...
For the 1896 reprinting, Hardy added "An Imaginative Woman," but in 1912 moved this to another collection, Life's Little Ironies, while at the same time transferring two stories - "A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four" and "The ...
Through them, Thomas Hardy talks about nineteenth century marriage, grammar, class status, how men and women were viewed, medical diseases and more.In 1888, Wessex Tales contained only five stories ('The Three Strangers', 'The Withered Arm' ...
Wessex Tales - Thomas Hardy - Complete Six Tales – Brand New Edition. Wessex Tales is an 1888 collection of tales written by Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy's birth in 1840.
Wessex Tales includes the stories An Imaginative Woman, The Three Strangers, The Withered Arm, Fellow-Townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap, and The Distracted Preacher.
Also Contains: Fellow Townsmen; Interlopers At The Knap; The Distracted Preacher.
Thomas Hardy. xist classicsio Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy Xist Publishing TUSTIN, CA ISBN: 978-1-68195-736-4. Front Cover.
Among the few features of agricultural England which retain an appearance but little modified by the lapse of centuries, may be reckoned the high, grassy and furzy downs, coombs, or ewe-leases, as they are indifferently called, that fill a ...
In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory.
A collection of stories by Thomas Hardy including: An Imaginative Woman, The Three Strangers, The Withered Arm, Fellow-Townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap, The Distracted Preacher.
Wessex Tales: Strange, Lively, and Commonplace
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
The perfect way to get acquainted with Hardy's world. Several of the tales were adapted for television in a 1973 BBC mini series starring, among others, John Hurt, Billie Whitlelaw, and Ben Kingsley.