Thomas Hardy Distracted Preacher

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141922027

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The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy Pdf

The darkly passionate short stories of Thomas Hardy are compelling explorations of love, social class, superstition and legend. This collection contains many of his finest and most representative, and includes 'The Withered Arm', an eerie depiction of arcane witchcraft in nineteenth-century England; 'Barbara of the House of Grebe', in which a beautiful man's tragic disfigurement by fire is savagely exploited by his rival; 'The Son's Veto', showing the cruelty of an educated youth towards his ignorant but tender mother; and 'The Distracted Preacher', the story of one man's conflict between heartfelt love and his own sense of moral and civic duty. By turns moving and poetic, and surprisingly modern and brutally macabre, these eloquent tales may be numbered among the greatest creations of Hardy's genius.

Author : Timothy R. Hands
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349200337

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Thomas Hardy: Distracted Preacher? by Timothy R. Hands Pdf

Author : Christine Gallant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Ambivalence in literature
ISBN : 031202696X

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Shelley's Ambivalence by Christine Gallant Pdf

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Distracted Preacher ByThomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy Pdf

When young Mr. Stockdale arrives in a small village to fill in for the Methodist minister, he finds himself pining for his comely new landlady. But she leads a mysterious life, keeping odd hours and speaking in hushed tones. As his love for her grows, he’s soon at the center of a hilarious high-stakes adventure, complete with slapstick, hijinks, and a marauding band of cross-dressers. And he’s forced to choose: follow his heart or his higher purpose?

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459762287

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The Distracted Preacher by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1183344216

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The Distracted Preacher by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Dale Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521566924

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The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy by Dale Kramer Pdf

Thomas Hardy's fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most influential of the twentieth century. His work still creates passionate advocacy and opposition. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy is an essential introduction to this most enigmatic of writers. These commissioned essays from an international team of contributors comprises a general overview of all Hardy' s work and specific demonstrations of Hardy's ideas and literary skills. Individual essays explore Hardy's biography, aesthetics, his famous attachment to Wessex, and the impact on his work of developments in science, religion and philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Hardy's writing is also analysed against developments in contemporary critical theory and issues such as sexuality and gender. The volume also contains a detailed chronology of Hardy's life and publications, and a guide to further reading.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775454014

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Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy Pdf

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 : Penguin UK
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141398327

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Woman Much Missed by Thomas Hardy Pdf

'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...' After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). Hardy's works available in Penguin Classics are A Laodicean, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Desperate Remedies, Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, Selected Poems, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales, The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories, The Hand of Ethelberta, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and The Well-beloved, The Return of the Native, The Trumpet-Major, The Withered Arm and Other Stories, The Woodlanders, Two on a Tower and Under the Greenwood Tree.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Martin Ray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351879378

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Thomas Hardy by Martin Ray Pdf

This is the definitive textual analysis of all of Hardy's collected short stories, tracing the development of each from manuscript, through newspaper serial versions, galley proofs and revises to collected editions in volume form. It is no surprise to discover that Hardy's capacity for inveterate revision is manifested in his tales as it was in his novels. Even those stories for which he professed little regard were meticulously and continuously revised, in some cases more than thirty years after their first publication. The alterations extend to the most minute details of plot, landscape, characterisation and style, as well as the restoration of bowdlerised passages which had been demanded by serial magazines. This study will play a major role in elevating the importance of this genre in Hardy's prolific output and will illuminate his textual practices - an area of considerable and growing interest to a large number of scholars and students.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11664339

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A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Author : Richard Franklin
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781802071757

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Thomas Hardy and Religion by Richard Franklin Pdf

The wellspring of Thomas Hardy and Religion is the recognition that Thomas Hardy's two late great novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, are dominated, respectively, by two religious traditions of nineteenth-century Anglicanism: Evangelicalism and Anglo-Catholicism. Placing those movements in their historical context alongside other Victorian religious traditions, the author explores the development of Hardy's religious beliefs and ideas up till the 1880s. Evangelicalism in Tess is discussed through an analysis of the principal characters, Angel Clare and his father, Parson Clare, Alec d'Urberville and Tess herself, leading to a consideration of why this form of Christianity looms so large in that novel. Not unexpectedly, the reasons for this are linked to Hardy's personal and intellectual biography, especially his religious upbringing and experience of and involvement in these religious traditions. This applies to both novels. The sources of Jude the Obscure in Hardy's life and thought, and their links to Anglo-Catholicism, are revealed in the context of the influence of that tradition on the narrative and characters, in particular Jude's sense of vocation, the importance of the university town of Christminster and issues associated with marriage, divorce and sexuality. Throughout his analysis of both novels the author demonstrates how Hardy lambasts the way in which these religious traditions and the conventional Victorian morality they bolstered undermine human flourishing. Thomas Hardy and Religion concludes by considering the place these two novels have in the continuing trajectory of Hardy's theological ideas, underlining the critical importance of understanding his religious concerns and reflecting on the way in which his critique of religion is important to people of faith.