Short Stories Of Thomas Hardy: Tales Of Past And Present
Each book offers up to six stories, arranged in order of difficulty, with integrated support material
Bringing together an international group of scholars, this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction.
This is the annotated edition including a rare biographical essay on the life and works of the author. This compilation of Thomas Hardy's short stories is one of the most complete on the book market.
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The Melancholy Hussar
It reflects the experiences of a novelist who was at the height of his creative powers. The stories are thematically linked by a concern with the diverse problems of marriage.
This collection of Thomas Hardy's short stories is edited by a well-known authority on Hardy whose other books on Hardy include Hardy's Wessex and Hardy: Novelist and Poet.
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Beautiful in their own right, these stories are also testing-grounds for the novels in their controversial sexual politics, their refusal of romance structures, and their elegiac pursuit of past, lost loves.