Wessex Tales

by Thomas Hardy, Michael Irwin (Introduction), Michael Irwin (Noted by), Keith Carabine (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853262692
Publisher:	Wordsworth Editions, Limited
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	Wordsworth Classics Series
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	4.99(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

N. H. Reeve was Professor of English, former COAH Director of Research and Head of Department at Swansea University. He contributed volumes to the Cambridge editions of D. H. Lawrence and Henry James, along with editing Wessex Tales for the Hardy edition. He also published on the work of Rex Warner, J. H. Prynne, and Elizabeth Bowen. Professor Reeve passed away on April 1, 2018.

Richard Nemesvari is Professor of English and former Dean of Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He has published on such authors as Wilkie Collins, the Brontës, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, as well as Thomas Hardy. His most recent publication is the co-edited collection of essays Wilkie Collins in Context. He is General Editor of the Cambridge University Press Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy.

Date of Birth:

June 2, 1840

Date of Death:

January 11, 1928

Place of Birth:

Higher Brockhampon, Dorset, England

Place of Death:

Max Gate, Dorchester, England

Education:

Served as apprentice to architect James Hicks

Table of Contents

Includes:The Three StrangersA Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and FourThe Melancholy Hussar of the German LegionThe Withered Arm; Fellow-TownsmenInterlopers at the KnapThe Distracted Preacher

Editorial Reviews

• "In two minutes only those shops which could boast of no attendant save the master or the mistress remained with open eyes. These were ever somewhat less prompt to exclude customers than the others: for their owners' ears the closing hour had scarcely the cheerfulness that it possessed for the hired servants of the rest."
• "Stockdale, a lonely young fellow, who had for weeks felt a great craving for somebody on whom to throw away superfluous interest, and even tenderness, was not sorry to join her...."

― Thomas Hardy, Wessex Tales

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