Wessex Tales: Strange, Lively and Commonplace

Wessex Tales: Strange, Lively and Commonplace
ISBN-10
1522781625
ISBN-13
9781522781622
Series
Wessex Tales
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
2015-12-16
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author
Thomas Hardy

Description

Wessex Tales is an 1888 collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy's birth in 1840. 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', 'Fellow-Townsmen', 'Interlopers at the Knap', and 'The Distracted Preacher') all published first in periodicals. 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 Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion" - from Life's Little Ironies to Wessex Tales.

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