Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy

Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy

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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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Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy

Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. 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. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy to realism and from tragedy to comedy. In insisting on the unusual nature of any story worth the telling, and with his gift for irony and compassion, Hardy achieves more in the genre of the short story than any English novelist before him.
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ISBN 13 9781853262692
ISBN 10 1853262692
Title Wessex Tales
Author Thomas Hardy
Series Wordsworth Classics
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Year published 1995-10-05
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.