Wessex Tales
Thomas Hardy1912

In Wessex Tales, his first collection of short stories, Hardy recorded the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. But these Tales also portray the social and economic stresses of Dorset in the 1880s, and reveal Hardy's growing scepticism about the possibility of achieving personal and sexual satisfaction in the modern world. By turns humorous, ironic, macabre, and elegiac, these seven stories show the range of Hardy’s story-telling gifts.

This edition includes:
- The Three Strangers
- A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four
- The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
- The Withered Arm
- Fellow-Townsmen
- Interlopers at the Knap
- The Distracted Preacher

Titre original : Wessex Tales (1912)