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Download or read book Wessex Tales written by Thomas Hardy and published by Joe Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First appearing in 1888, Wessex Tales is a collection of short stories by the supremely gifted Thomas Hardy. 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. Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.
Book Synopsis An Imaginative Woman by : Thomas Hardy
Download or read book An Imaginative Woman written by Thomas Hardy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short story written by Thomas Hardy was published in Wessex. This tells of a woman, a wife and a mother who aspires to be a poet and who falls in love with a male poet she never meets. As a Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.
Book Synopsis The Melancholy Hussar by : Thomas Hardy
Download or read book The Melancholy Hussar written by Thomas Hardy and published by Collector's Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Interlopers at the Knap by : Thomas Hardy
Download or read book Interlopers at the Knap written by Thomas Hardy and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the let...
Download or read book The Withered Arm written by Thomas Hardy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'She bared her poor curst arm' A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Download or read book Wessex Tales written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-17 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Distracted Preacher by : Thomas Hardy
Download or read book The Distracted Preacher written by Thomas Hardy and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the master of Victorian tragedy, the surprisingly comic adventures of a man caught between romance and religion. When young Mr. Stockdale arrives in a small village to fill in for the Methodist minister, he finds himself pining for his comely new landlady. But she leads a mysterious life, keeping odd hours and speaking in hushed tones. As his love for her grows, he’s soon at the center of a hilarious high-stakes adventure, complete with slapstick, hijinks, and a marauding band of cross-dressers. And he’s forced to choose: follow his heart or his higher purpose? *** This is a Hybrid Book. Melville House HybridBooks combine print and digital media into an enhanced reading experience by including with each title additional curated material called Illuminations — maps, photographs, illustrations, and further writing about the author and the book. The Melville House Illuminations are free with the purchase of any title in the HybridBook series, no matter the format. Purchasers of the print version can obtain the Illuminations for a given title simply by scanning the QR code found in the back of each book, or by following the url also given in the back of the print book, then downloading the Illumination in whatever format works best for you. Purchasers of the digital version receive the appropriate Illuminations automatically as part of the ebook edition.
Download or read book Wessex Tales written by Thomas Hardy and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also Contains: Fellow Townsmen; Interlopers At The Knap; The Distracted Preacher.
Book Synopsis The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888 by : Thomas Hardy
Download or read book The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888 written by Thomas Hardy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "See if she is dark or fair, and if you can, notice if her hands be white; if not, see if they look as though she had ever done housework, or are milker's hands like mine." So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new bride in 'The Withered Arm', the title story in this selection of Hardy's finest short stories. Hardy's first story, 'Destiny and a Blue Cloak' was written fresh from the success of Far From the Madding Crowd. 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. Several of the stories in The Withered Arm were collected to form the famous volume, Wessex Tales (1888), the first time Hardy denoted 'Wessex' to describe his fictional world. The Withered Arm is the first of a new two-volume selection of Hardy's short stories, edited with an introduction and notes by Kristin Brady.
Book Synopsis Wessex Poems and Other Verses by : Thomas Hardy
Download or read book Wessex Poems and Other Verses written by Thomas Hardy and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1898 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book WESSEX TALES written by Thomas Hardy and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE An apology is perhaps needed for the neglect of contrast which is shown by presenting two consecutive stories of hangmen in such a small collection as the following. But in the neighbourhood of county-towns tales of executions used to form a large proportion of the local traditions; and though never personally acquainted with any chief operator at such scenes, the writer of these pages had as a boy the privilege of being on speaking terms with a man who applied for the office, and who sank into an incurable melancholy because he failed to get it, some slight mitigation of his grief being to dwell upon striking episodes in the lives of those happier ones who had held it with success and renown. His tale of disappointment used to cause some wonder why his ambition should have taken such an unfortunate form, but its nobleness was never questioned. In those days, too, there was still living an old woman who, for the cure of some eating disease, had been taken in her youth to have her ‘blood turned’ by a convict’s corpse, in the manner described in ‘The Withered Arm.’ Since writing this story some years ago I have been reminded by an aged friend who knew ‘Rhoda Brook’ that, in relating her dream, my forgetfulness has weakened the facts our of which the tale grew. In reality it was while lying down on a hot afternoon that the incubus oppressed her and she flung it off, with the results upon the body of the original as described. To my mind the occurrence of such a vision in the daytime is more impressive than if it had happened in a midnight dream. Readers are therefore asked to correct the misrelation, which affords an instance of how our imperfect memories insensibly formalize the fresh originality of living fact—from whose shape they slowly depart, as machine-made castings depart by degrees from the sharp hand-work of the mould.
Download or read book Wessex Tales written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis WESSEX TALES by : Thomas 1840-1928 Hardy
Download or read book WESSEX TALES written by Thomas 1840-1928 Hardy and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Return of the Native Annotated by : Thomas Hardy
Download or read book Return of the Native Annotated written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called 'the real stuff of tragedy.' The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the novel. The 'native' is Clym Yeobright, who comes home from a cosmopolitan life in Paris. He; his cousin Thomasin; her fiancé, Damon Wildeve; and the willful Eustacia Vye are the protagonists in a tale of doomed love, passion, alienation, and melancholy as Hardy brilliantly explores that theme so familiar throughout his fiction: the diabolical role of chance in determining the course of a life.
Book Synopsis Death of Kings by : Bernard Cornwell
Download or read book Death of Kings written by Bernard Cornwell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. As the ninth century wanes, Alfred the Great lies dying, his lifelong goal of a unified England in peril, his kingdom on the brink of chaos. Though his son, Edward, has been named his successor, there are other Saxon claimants to the throne—as well as ambitious pagan Vikings to the north. Torn between his vows to Alfred and the desire to reclaim his long-lost ancestral lands in the north, Uhtred, Saxon-born and Viking-raised, remains the king’s warrior but has sworn no oath to the crown prince. Now he must make a momentous decision that will forever transform his life and the course of history: to take up arms—and Alfred’s mantle—or lay down his sword and let his liege’s dream of a unified kingdom die along with him.
Download or read book Wessex Tales written by Thomas Hardy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from the Preface: "An apology is perhaps needed for the neglect of contrast which is shown by presenting two consecutive stories of hangmen in such a small collection as the following. But in the neighbourhood of county-towns tales of executions used to form a large proportion of the local traditions; and though never personally acquainted with any chief operator at such scenes, the writer of these pages had as a boy the privilege of being on speaking terms with a man who applied for the office, and who sank into an incurable melancholy because he failed to get it, some slight mitigation of his grief being to dwell upon striking episodes in the lives of those happier ones who had held it with success and renown. His tale of disappointment used to cause some wonder why his ambition should have taken such an unfortunate form, but its nobleness was never questioned. In those days, too, there was still living an old woman who, for the cure of some eating disease, had been taken in her youth to have her 'blood turned' by a convict's corpse, in the manner described in 'The Withered Arm.'"
Download or read book Wessex Tales written by Thomas Hardy and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy: Wessex Tales is a collection of short stories by Thomas Hardy set in the fictional region of Wessex, England. The collection explores themes of love, loss, fate, and the struggles of individuals against societal expectations. Hardy's vivid descriptions, rich characterization, and poignant storytelling make Wessex Tales a classic work of English literature. Key Aspects of the Book "Wessex Tales": Regional Setting: The stories are set in the fictional region of Wessex, showcasing Hardy's skill in capturing the unique atmosphere and character of rural England. Human Struggles and Relationships: Wessex Tales delves into the complexities of human relationships, the conflicts between personal desires and societal norms, and the challenges faced by individuals in pursuit of their dreams. Symbolism and Natural Imagery: Hardy employs symbolism and evocative descriptions of nature to convey deeper meanings, emphasizing the connection between the characters' internal struggles and the natural world. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. His works, including Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, are known for their exploration of human passions, the impact of societal expectations, and the tragic nature of human existence. Wessex Tales showcases Hardy's storytelling prowess and his ability to capture the complexities of rural life and human relationships.
