Selected Short Stories (Wordsworth Classics Series)

by Thomas Hardy, Thomas Hardy

Overview

Contains tales that tenderly re-create a vanishing rural world and scrutinise the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life. This book contains tales and sketches that possess the wealth of description, the portrayal of the quaint lore of Wessex, the 'Chaucerian' humour and characterisation, the shrewd and critical psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853261787
Publisher:	Wordsworth Editions, Limited
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	Wordsworth Classics Series
Pages:	179
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928), was an English novelist and poet.

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

	Acknowledgements	vi
	General Editor's Preface	vii
	Map of Hardy's Wessex	viii
	Introduction	xi
	Note on the Text	xxviii
	Select Bibliography	xxxvi
	A Chronology of Thomas Hardy	xxxviii
	Life's Little Ironies	1
Appendix A	The 1896 Preface	219
Appendix B	Textual Variation in "On the Western Circuit"	220
Appendix C	The First Draft of "Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver"	225
	Explanatory Notes	231
	Dialect Glossary	252