Wessex Talesby Thomas Hardy | |
| Category: |
"Fiction - Short Story Collection" |
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| Pages: | 288 |
| Year of Publication: | 1896 |
| Date Read: | 02/01/1998 |
| Notes: | Seven short stories. The first piece, The Three Strangers, pulls out all the stops: a violent storm on the downs, three mysterious strangers who seek shelter in a shepherd's cabin where a rousing christening party is in progress, and the booming of a cannon to announce the escape of a prisoner nearby. Woven through all the stories are lively descriptions of life in Somerset 50 years or so before Hardy's time: accounts of milking cows all day in a dark dairy (The Withered Arm), smuggling tubs of brandy over the cliffs (The Distracted Preacher), and preparing for the anticipated invasion of Napoleon (A Tradition of 1804). |
| My Rating: | 8 |