Dimensions
130 x 198 x 25mm
Tales of love lost and revenge won; of passions stifled and creed observed; of "things eternal and universal". Such are the everyday themes of Hardy's extraordinary stories woven in fine folkloric fashion around the enigmatic personages of the milkmaid and the burgher, the widow and the preacher, the hangman and his victim.
Selected from 'Wessex Tales', 'A Group of Noble Dames', 'Life's Little Ironies' and 'A Changed Man and Other Tales', the short stories are the seeds of some of Hardy's great novels, but they are also well-polished vignettes that elevate "ordinary experience" to the realm of myth and legend.
A unique selection, with introduction, notes, bibliography and chronology of Hardy's life and times.
