by Thomas Hardy · Oxford Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192827203
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«Wessex Tales» is Thomas Hardy's collection of short stories, published by Oxford Paperbacks in paperback (248 pages, in English).
Thomas Hardy's first collection of short stories, set in the fictional region of Wessex. It brings together seven tales combining humour, irony and macabre elements, reflecting the social and economic tensions of 1880s Dorset, as well as Hardy's scepticism about personal and sexual happiness. Includes titles such as «The Withered Arm» and «The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion».
1991 edition in the World's Classics series, with introduction and editing by Kathryn R. King and critical text based on the study of all revised versions. The work was originally published in 1888.
Recommended for readers of Victorian fiction and classic English short stories, especially those interested in the work of Thomas Hardy and rural Wessex.
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.
