Wessex Tales Paperback / softback
by Thomas Hardy
Edited by Kathryn King
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
But these tales also portray the social and economic stresses of 1880s Dorset, and reveal Hardy's growing scepticism about the possibility of achieving personal and sexual satisfaction in the modern world.
By turns humorous, ironic, macabre, and elegiac, these seven stories show the range of Hardy's story-telling genius.
The critically established text, the first to be based on detailed study of all revised texts, presents manuscript readings which have never before appeared in print.
The stories include: The Three Strangers; A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion; The Withered Arm; Fellow-Townsmen; Interlopers at the Knap; The Distracted Preacher ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:29/01/2009
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- ISBN:9780199538522
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:29/01/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199538522
