Wessex Tales (Wordsworth Classics)
by:
Thomas Hardy (author)
This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive 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....
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This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781853262692 (1853262692)
Publish date: April 1st 1998
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Well, that was depressing. But totally worth it because experiencing the work of a master is pure pleasure. So I thank Thomas Hardy for bringing us these tales of lives brought to ruin and waste because of bad decisions.