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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Accordingly he went round into the street at the back that he knew so well, entered the garden, and came quietly into the house through the kitchen, temporarily depositing the bird and cage under a bush outside, to lessen the ...
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.
can be said against mead is that 'tis rather heady, and apt to lie about a man a good while. ... “He used to walk over there of a Sunday afternoon to visit his old acquaintance Andrew Brown, the first clarinet there; a good.
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Wessex Tales’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy’.