The Withered Arm And Other Stories

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141938110

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The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888 by Thomas Hardy Pdf

"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.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN : OCLC:1349267545

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The Withered Arm and Other Stories by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726959864

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The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Milkmaid Rhoda Brooks cannot control her jealousy of Gertrude - a beautiful woman who has just married a rich farmer. So when Gertrude appears in her dream she cannot help but reach out and grab the arm of the woman she wishes she was. As Gertrude's arm begins to wither away in real life and no physicians are able to give her a solution, she must turn to a conjurer. Considered one of Hardy's most successful short stories, 'The Withered Arm' is unmissable for those who enjoyed the suspense of Edgar Allen Poe's 'A Tell-Tale Heart Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an architect by trade, but he is best remembered for the major contributions that he made to the literary world. He wrote both novels and poetry and was famed for his pessimistic outlook. The most notable of his works include 'Jude The Obscure', 'Far from the Madding Crowd', and 'Tess of the d'Ubervilles'. His gloomy prose is ideal for fans of Dickens, Defoe, and Keats.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101221686

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The Withered Arm and Other Stories by Thomas Hardy Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:926483941

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The Withered Arm [in, The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888: Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kristin Brady] (Penguin Classics). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241251614

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The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy Pdf

'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.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0141882425

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Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888 by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Part one of a two-volume selection of Hardy's short fiction. This volume covers the stories contained in Wessex Tales (1888) and A Group of Noble Dames (1891).

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141942612

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The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories 1888-1900 by Thomas Hardy Pdf

The Melancholy Hussar/ A Tragedy of Two Ambitions/ The First Countess of Wessex/ Barbara of the House of Grebe/ For Conscience' Sake/ The Son's Veto/ On the Western Circuit/ An Imaginative Woman/ A Changed Man/ Enter a Dragoon The 11 short storiesin this collection range from those with the Wessex setting familiar from Hardy's novels, to aristocratic historical fantasies set in the 17th and 18th centuries, and tragic or ironic contemporary dramas. Enormously readable in their own right, thestories can also be seen as a rich testing ground for ideas and themes that receive more sustained treatment in Hardy's most innovative and controversial novels.

Author : Juliette Berning Schaefer,Siobhan Craft Brownson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317010425

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Thomas Hardy's Short Stories by Juliette Berning Schaefer,Siobhan Craft Brownson Pdf

Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories, but in spite of this impressive number, his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The contributors take up topics related to their publication in periodicals, gender and community relationships, and narrative techniques. Taken together, the essays show that Hardy's short stories are important, not only for what they tell us about Hardy as a writer who straddles the divide between the traditionalist and the modernist, but also for how they reflect and inform the period in which he wrote.

Author : Герберт Уэллс
Publisher : Litres
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040830428

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The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Герберт Уэллс Pdf

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473345232

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The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. Wells Pdf

This volume contains 33 short stories written by H. G. Wells. The stories were specially chosen by Wells as those that he most wanted to reflect his legacy in short story form. The collection includes the title story - his most well-known - and other masterpieces including the chilling revenge story "The Cone" and "The New Accelerator", a masterful example of his early comedic style. Contents include: "The Jilting Of Jane", "The Cone", "The Stolen Bacillus", "The Flowering Of The Strange Orchid", "The Avu Observatory", "Aepyornis Island", "The Remarkable Case Of Davidson's Eyes", "The Lord Of The Dynamos", "The Moth", "The Treasure In The Forest", "The Story Of The Late Mr. Elvesham", et cetera. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Today, he is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the science fiction genre thanks to such novels as "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The War of the Worlds" (1898). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547028468

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An Imaginative Woman by Thomas Hardy Pdf

This is a short story written by Thomas Hardy was published in Wessex. This tells of a woman, a wife and a mother who aspires to be a poet and who falls in love with a male poet she never meets. As a Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid by Thomas Hardy Pdf

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.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Country Of The Blind, And Other Stories By H. G. Wells by H. G. Wells Pdf

"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Or is he? In H. G. Wells' acclaimed tale, a stranded mountaineer encounters an isolated society in which his apparent advantage, sight, since all the people are blind, proves less than valuable.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 0435122878

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The Withered Arm and Other Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy Pdf

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.