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Author : Tony Fincham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Wessex (England)
ISBN : 0992915155
Author : Hermann Lea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Literary landmarks
ISBN : 0659903830
This amply illustrated volume explores Dorset sites associated with Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Hermann Lea
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230734074
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...to describe it further here. "A Few Crusted Characters" If we enter Dorchester by the London Road we shall see, on our right hand, just at the commencement of the town, an inn bearing the name of the White Hart, a fine wooden specimen of that animal gracing the top of the porch. On any market day we may find the yard in front of the inn thronged with carriers' vans, all typical of the particular van mentioned in the short tales we are examining. "Burthen, Carrier to Longpuddle," is the title it bears, and in Longpuddle we shall recognise a strong resemblance to the villages of Pydelhinton and Pydeltrenthide, the apt naming of the fictitious place striking us at once as we explore the two long straggling villages which are practically connected to each other. Let us follow Burthen's van as it starts from the White Hart. First come the open meadows--the DurnoverMoor of the Wessex Novels--Grey's Bridge occurring about midway; then, taking the left-hand road, we climb Waterstone, or Climmerstone Ridge--scene of the poem entitled "The Revisitation "--by way of Slyre's Lane, which brings us to the summit by a series of rises and dips. Once at the top of the hill, the road descends into the valley of the Pydele and follows that little stream upwards, the road running parallel with the river. According to local repute, the district is one wherein a man can "neither live nor die "--which means it is too poor for him to make a living in, while the climate is too healthy to allow him to perish! It was on this road that Tony got himself into the pickle he himself describes as a "nunnywatch." "The History of the Hardcomes " has BudmouthRegis as its background, a place well known to us as...
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775454014
Dip into this delightful volume of short stories from famed British author Thomas Hardy. Spanning myriad aspects of nineteenth-century life, this eclectic collection of tales -- by turns quaint and caustic -- is sure to sate your craving for stories from the English countryside.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
CHAPTER I The person who, next to the actors themselves, chanced to know most of their story, lived just below ‘Top o’ Town’ (as the spot was called) in an old substantially-built house, distinguished among its neighbours by having an oriel window on the first floor, whence could be obtained a raking view of the High Street, west and east, the former including Laura’s dwelling, the end of the Town Avenue hard by (in which were played the odd pranks hereafter to be mentioned), the Port-Bredy road rising westwards, and the turning that led to the cavalry barracks where the Captain was quartered. Looking eastward down the town from the same favoured gazebo, the long perspective of houses declined and dwindled till they merged in the highway across the moor. The white riband of road disappeared over Grey’s Bridge a quarter of a mile off, to plunge into innumerable rustic windings, shy shades, and solitary undulations up hill and down dale for one hundred and twenty miles till it exhibited itself at Hyde Park Corner as a smooth bland surface in touch with a busy and fashionable world. To the barracks aforesaid had recently arrived the ---th Hussars, a regiment new to the locality. Almost before any acquaintance with its members had been made by the townspeople, a report spread that they were a ‘crack’ body of men, and had brought a splendid band. For some reason or other the town had not been used as the headquarters of cavalry for many years, the various troops stationed there having consisted of casual detachments only; so that it was with a sense of honour that everybody—even the small furniture-broker from whom the married troopers hired tables and chairs—received the news of their crack quality.
Author : Clive Holland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015012172816
Author : Henry Charles Duffin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00038138
Author : Mark Ford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674737891
Because Thomas Hardy’s poetry and fiction are so closely associated with Wessex, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner, moving between country and capital throughout his life. This self-division, Mark Ford says, can be traced not only in works explicitly set in London but in his most regionally circumscribed novels.
Author : Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Wessex (England)
ISBN : UGA:32108000854524
Author : Lois Bethe Schoenfeld
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0761831681
Examines how portrayals of families in Hardy's novels are used to comment on the socio-historical changes in Victorian England.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
PREFACE The date at which the following events are assumed to have occurred may be set down as between 1840 and 1850, when the old watering place herein called "Budmouth" still retained sufficient afterglow from its Georgian gaiety and prestige to lend it an absorbing attractiveness to the romantic and imaginative soul of a lonely dweller inland. Under the general name of "Egdon Heath," which has been given to the sombre scene of the story, are united or typified heaths of various real names, to the number of at least a dozen; these being virtually one in character and aspect, though their original unity, or partial unity, is now somewhat disguised by intrusive strips and slices brought under the plough with varying degrees of success, or planted to woodland. It is pleasant to dream that some spot in the extensive tract whose southwestern quarter is here described, may be the heath of that traditionary King of Wessex—Lear. July, 1895. "To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind. I would deceive her, And so leave her, But ah! she is so constant and so kind."
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
PREFACE The peninsula carved by Time out of a single stone, whereon most of the following scenes are laid, has been for centuries immemorial the home of a curious and well-nigh distinct people, cherishing strange beliefs and singular customs, now for the most part obsolescent. Fancies, like certain soft-wooded plants which cannot bear the silent inland frosts, but thrive by the sea in the roughest of weather, seem to grow up naturally here, in particular amongst those natives who have no active concern in the labours of the 'Isle.' Hence it is a spot apt to generate a type of personage like the character imperfectly sketched in these pages—a native of natives—whom some may choose to call a fantast (if they honour him with their consideration so far), but whom others may see only as one that gave objective continuity and a name to a delicate dream which in a vaguer form is more or less common to all men, and is by no means new to Platonic philosophers. To those who know the rocky coign of England here depicted—overlooking the great Channel Highway with all its suggestiveness, and standing out so far into mid-sea that touches of the Gulf Stream soften the air till February—it is matter of surprise that the place has not been more frequently chosen as the retreat of artists and poets in search of inspiration—for at least a month or two in the year, the tempestuous rather than the fine seasons by preference. To be sure, one nook therein is the retreat, at their country's expense, of other geniuses from a distance; but their presence is hardly discoverable. Yet perhaps it is as well that the artistic visitors do not come, or no more would be heard of little freehold houses being bought and sold there for a couple of hundred pounds—built of solid stone, and dating from the sixteenth century and earlier, with mullions, copings, and corbels complete. These transactions, by the way, are carried out and covenanted, or were till lately, in the parish church, in the face of the congregation, such being the ancient custom of the Isle.
Author : Randall Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Wessex (England)
ISBN : UCAL:B3578882
