| Wessex Tales Contributor(s): Hardy, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 6059654142 ISBN-13: 9786059654142 Publisher: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1888 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - Anthologies |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1120 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.92 lbs) 282 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Wessex Tales is a collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy's birth in 1840. 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', 'Fellow-Townsmen', 'Interlopers at the Knap', and 'The Distracted Preacher') all published first in periodicals. 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 Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion" - from Life's Little Ironies to Wessex Tales. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hardy, Thomas: - Thomas Hardy, (born 1840, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England-died 1928, Dorchester, Dorset), English novelist and poet who set much of his work in Wessex, his name for the counties of southwestern England. |