An introduction and commentary accompanies the following tales: "The Three Strangers", "A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four", "The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion","The Withered Arm", "Fellow - Townsman", "Interlopers at the Knap" and "The Distracted Preacher".
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Hardy tests the skill of any narrator. Not only must the reader dramatize differences of age, sex, region, and class among the characters who inhabit the fictional county of Wessex in the last century, but the straight narration must also showcase the eloquence of Hardy's prose. Vincent Brimble manages all this with ease. Which is fortunate, since the seven uneven tales here might seem downright dull in print. The first and best piece, "The Three Strangers," pulls out all the stops: a violent storm on the downs, three mysterious strangers who seek shelter in a shepherd's cabin where a rousing christening party is in progress, and the booming of a cannon to announce the escape of a prisoner nearby. In other stories (e.g., "Fellow Townsmen") the characters seem wooden, with plots turning too much on coincidence. Woven through all, however, are lively descriptions of life in Somerset 50 years or so before Hardy's time: accounts of milking cows all day in a dark dairy ("The Withered Arm"), smuggling tubs of brandy over the cliffs ("The Distracted Preacher"), and preparing for the anticipated invasion of Napoleon ("A Tradition of 1804"). Recommended for classic literature collections.
Jo Carr, Sarasota, Fla.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
Jo Carr, Sarasota, Fla.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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AMONG the few features of agricultural England which retain an appearance but little modified by the lapse of centuries may be reckoned the long, grassy and furzy downs, coombs, or ewe-leases, as they are called according to their kind, that fill a large area of certain counties in the south and south-west. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
uncle job, third stranger, three strangers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rhoda Brook, Lucy Savile, York Hussars, Gertrude Lodge, Humphrey Gould, Sally Hall, The Distracted Preacher, Withered Arm, Lizzy Newberry, Lulwind Cove, Martha Sarah, Conjuror Trendle, Long-Ash Lane, Shepherd Fennel, Black-Bull Hotel, Japheth Johns, Miss Savile, Farmer Darton, Farmer Lodge, Higher Crowstairs, Marther Sarer New!
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AMONG the few features of agricultural England which retain an appearance but little modified by the lapse of centuries may be reckoned the long, grassy and furzy downs, coombs, or ewe-leases, as they are called according to their kind, that fill a large area of certain counties in the south and south-west. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
uncle job, third stranger, three strangers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rhoda Brook, Lucy Savile, York Hussars, Gertrude Lodge, Humphrey Gould, Sally Hall, The Distracted Preacher, Withered Arm, Lizzy Newberry, Lulwind Cove, Martha Sarah, Conjuror Trendle, Long-Ash Lane, Shepherd Fennel, Black-Bull Hotel, Japheth Johns, Miss Savile, Farmer Darton, Farmer Lodge, Higher Crowstairs, Marther Sarer New!
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- Thomas Hardy: His Career As a Novelist by Michael Millgate in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Hardy in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- No Name, V2 by Wilkie Collins in Back Matter
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- Thomas Hardy's Vision of Wessex by Simon Gatrell on 12 pages
- Modern English Books of Power by George Hamlin Fitch on 7 pages
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- Life's Little Ironies (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hardy on 6 pages
- Thomas Hardy on Screen by T. R. Wright on 5 pages
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