Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Wessex Tales, By Thomas Hardy A Novel (World's Classics): Wessex Tales: That Is To Say: An Imaginative Woman, The Three Strangers, The Withered Arm, FISBN13:9781533586544ISBN10:1533586543Author:Hardy, Thomas (Author)Description:Wessex Tales Is An 1888 Collection Of Tales Written By English Novelist And Poet Thomas Hardy In The Various Short Stories, Hardy Writes Of The True Nature Of Nineteenth Century Marriage And Its Inherent Restrictions, The Use Grammar As A Diluted Form Of Thought, The Disparities Created By The Role Of Class Status In Determining Societal Rank, The Stance Of Women In Society And The Severity Of Even Minor Diseases Causing The Rapid Onset Of Fatal Symptoms Prior To The Introduction Of Sufficient Medicinal Practices A Focal Point Of All The Short Stories Is That Of Social Constraints Acting To Diminish One's Contentment In Life, Necessitating Unwanted Marriages, Repression Of True Emotion And Succumbing To Melancholia Due To Constriction Within The Confines Of 19Th Century Perceived Normalcy Published In 1888, Wessex Tales Contained Five Stories (The Three Strangers, The Withered Arm, Fellow-Townsmen, Interlopers At The Knap, And The Distracted Preacher) All Published First In Periodicals For The 1896 Reprinting, Hardy Added An Imaginative Woman, But In 1912 Moved This To Another Collection, Life's Little Ironies, While At The Same Time Transferring Two Stories-A Tradition Of Eighteen Hundred And Four And The Melancholy Hussar Of The German Legion-From Life's Little Ironies To Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy, Om (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) Was An English Novelist And Poet A Victorian Realist In The Tradition Of George Eliot, He Was Influenced Both In His Novels And In His Poetry By Romanticism, Especially William Wordsworth 1] Charles Dickens Was Another Important Influence 2] Page Needed] Like Dickens, He Was Highly Critical Of Much In Victorian Society, Though Hardy Focused More On A Declining Rural Society While Hardy Wrote Poetry Throughout His Life And Regarded Himself Primarily As A Poet, His First Collection Was Not Published Until 1898 Initially, Therefore, He Gained Fame As The Author Of Novels, Including Far From The Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor Of Casterbridge (1886), Tess Of The D'urbervilles (1891), And Jude The Obscure (1895) Hardy's Poetry, Though Prolific, Was Not As Well Received During His Lifetime It Was Rediscovered In The 1950S, When Hardy's Poetry Had A Significant Influence On The Movement Poets Of The 1950S And 1960S, Including Philip Larkin Hardy's First Novel, The Poor Man And The Lady, Finished By 1867, Failed To Find A Publisher He Then Showed It To His Mentor And Friend, The Victorian Poet And Novelist, George Meredith, Who Felt That The Poor Man And The Lady Would Be Too Politically Controversial And Might Damage Hardy's Ability To Publish In The Future So Hardy Followed His Advice And He Did Not Try Further To Publish It Later, He Destroyed The Manuscript After He Abandoned His First Novel, Hardy Wrote Two New Ones That He Hoped Would Have More Commercial Appeal, Desperate Remedies (1871) And Under The Greenwood Tree (1872), Both Of Which Were Published Anonymously In 1873 A Pair Of Blue Eyes, A Novel Drawing On Hardy's Courtship Of His First Wife, Was Published Under His Own Name The Term Cliffhanger Is Considered To Have Originated With The Serialised Version Of This Story (Which Was Published In Tinsley's Magazine Between September 1872 And July 1873) In Which Henry Knight, One Of The Protagonists, Is Left Literally Hanging Off A Cliff Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:CREATESPACEPublication Date:2016-06-03Weight:0.64 lbsDimensions:0.3'' H x 10'' L x 7.99'' WNumber of Pages:140Language:English
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Book Title: Wessex Tales , by Thomas Hardy a NOVEL (World's Classics) : Wessex Tales : That Is to Say : an Imaginative Woman, the Three Strangers, the Withered Arm, Fellow-Townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap, the Distracted Preacher
Item Length: 10in.
Item Height: 0.3in.
Item Width: 8in.
Author: Thomas Hardy
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Publisher: CreateSpace
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 13.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 140 Pages
