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The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories 1888-1900
  • Published: 7 July 2003
  • ISBN: 9780140439007
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99

The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories 1888-1900

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A companion volume to The Withered Arm & Other Stories, 1874-1888 (0140435328)

The Melancholy Hussar/ A Tragedy of Two Ambitions/ The First Countess of Wessex/ Barbara of the House of Grebe/ For Conscience' Sake/ The Son's Veto/ On the Western Circuit/ An Imaginative Woman/ A Changed Man/ Enter a Dragoon
The 11 short storiesin this collection range from those with the Wessex setting familiar from Hardy's novels, to aristocratic historical fantasies set in the 17th and 18th centuries, and tragic or ironic contemporary dramas. Enormously readable in their own right, thestories can also be seen as a rich testing ground for ideas and themes that receive more sustained treatment in Hardy's most innovative and controversial novels.
  • Published: 7 July 2003
  • ISBN: 9780140439007
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99
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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.

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