The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888 write by Thomas Hardy. This book was released on 2006-08-31. The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
The Withered Arm
The Withered Arm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Withered Arm write by Thomas Hardy. This book was released on 2016-03-03. The Withered Arm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'She bared her poor curst arm' A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid write by Thomas Hardy. This book was released on 2016-01-04. The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. CHAPTER I. It was half-past four o’clock (by the testimony of the land-surveyor, my authority for the particulars of this story, a gentleman with the faintest curve of humour on his lips); it was half-past four o’clock on a May morning in the eighteen forties. A dense white fog hung over the Valley of the Exe, ending against the hills on either side. But though nothing in the vale could be seen from higher ground, notes of differing kinds gave pretty clear indications that bustling life was going on there. This audible presence and visual absence of an active scene had a peculiar effect above the fog level. Nature had laid a white hand over the creatures ensconced within the vale, as a hand might be laid over a nest of chirping birds. The noises that ascended through the pallid coverlid were perturbed lowings, mingled with human voices in sharps and flats, and the bark of a dog. These, followed by the slamming of a gate, explained as well as eyesight could have done, to any inhabitant of the district, that Dairyman Tucker’s under-milker was driving the cows from the meads into the stalls. When a rougher accent joined in the vociferations of man and beast, it would have been realized that the dairy-farmer himself had come out to meet the cows, pail in hand, and white pinafore on; and when, moreover, some women’s voices joined in the chorus, that the cows were stalled and proceedings about to commence.
The Withered Arm and Other Wessex Tales
The Withered Arm and Other Wessex Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Withered Arm and Other Wessex Tales write by Thomas Hardy. This book was released on 1984. The Withered Arm and Other Wessex Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thomas Hardy wrote about the people and places he knew, and never more directly than in his short stories. They are full of the characters and incidents of his immediate experience - smugglers, healers, country musicians, local squires and parsons, the eccentric and the strait-laced.
Wessex Tales
Wessex Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wessex Tales write by Thomas Hardy. This book was released on 1905. Wessex Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
