The Withered Arm and Other Stories
Author : Thomas Hardy
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Release : 1999
Category : Short stories, English
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Author : Thomas Hardy
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Release : 1999
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Author : Kristin Brady
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Release : 1999
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Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141938110
"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.
Author : Thomas Hardy
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File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2003-09
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ISBN : 9780141887890
Part of the two-volume selection of Hardy's short stories, this first title features stories that 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.
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Author : Juliette Berning Schaefer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317010426
Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories, but in spite of this impressive number, his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The contributors take up topics related to their publication in periodicals, gender and community relationships, and narrative techniques. Taken together, the essays show that Hardy's short stories are important, not only for what they tell us about Hardy as a writer who straddles the divide between the traditionalist and the modernist, but also for how they reflect and inform the period in which he wrote.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141942614
The Melancholy Hussar/ A Tragedy of Two Ambitions/ The First Countess of Wessex/ Barbara of the House of Grebe/ For Conscience' Sake/ The Son's Veto/ On the Western Circuit/ An Imaginative Woman/ A Changed Man/ Enter a Dragoon The 11 short storiesin this collection range from those with the Wessex setting familiar from Hardy's novels, to aristocratic historical fantasies set in the 17th and 18th centuries, and tragic or ironic contemporary dramas. Enormously readable in their own right, thestories can also be seen as a rich testing ground for ideas and themes that receive more sustained treatment in Hardy's most innovative and controversial novels.