Wessex Tales

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Wessex Tales

Thomas Hardy

Edition year 1987
Binding Series
Illustrator Peter Reddick
Weight 0.75 Kg
Pages 202
Dimensions 22.7 × 14.9 cm

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Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy, introduction by Robert Gittings, thirteen wood engravings by Peter Reddick. Full dark blue series binding decorated in pale blue, map endleaves. Dark blue slipcase. 22.7 x 14.9 cm. 202 pp.

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Thomas Hardy's Wessex Tales brings together short stories set in the fictionalised southwestern English landscape that provides the setting for many of Hardy's novels. The tales depict farmers, labourers, soldiers, clergymen and members of rural communities whose lives are shaped by love, chance and social convention. Hardy combines vivid descriptions of the countryside with his characteristic interest in fate and human misunderstanding. The stories range from romance and humour to tragedy and the supernatural, creating a rich portrait of nineteenth-century rural life and the changing traditions of Hardy's Wessex.

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