by Thomas Hardy · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194232494
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«The Withered Arm» is Thomas Hardy's story adapted by Jennifer Bassett as a graded reader, Oxford Bookworms 1, in paperback (56 pages, in English).
A woman and a man exchange words of love one summer night; then a child is born, but there is no wedding. The man leaves that woman and marries a younger one. It is a story that seems old, but in the green hills of southern England it hides something unsettling: perhaps a dream, perhaps a dark magic born among ghosts.
It belongs to the Oxford Bookworms Library Classics series, Stage 1 level, with a vocabulary of 400 words. Published by Oxford University Press Spain in 2004.
Aimed at beginner-level students of English as a foreign language; the recommended reading age is 13 and up.
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
