The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales

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The darkly passionate short stories of Thomas Hardy are compelling explorations of love social class superstition and legend. This collection contains many of his finest and most representative and includes 'The Withered Arm' an eerie depiction of arcane witchcraft in nineteenth-century England; 'Barbara of the House of Grebe' in which a beautiful man's tragic disfigurement by fire is savagely exploited by his rival; 'The Son's Veto' showing the cruelty of an educated youth towards his ignorant but tender mother; and 'The Distracted Preacher' the story of one man's conflict between heartfelt love and his own sense of moral and civic duty. By turns moving and poetic and surprisingly modern and brutally macabre these eloquent tales may be numbered among the greatest creations of Hardy's genius.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Hardy's Life and Works: a Chronology
Introduction
1. Thomas Hardy as a Short Story Writer
2. The Selected Stories

Hardy's Wessex
Map
Key to Place-Names

The Distracted Preacher
A Mere Interlude
The Withered Arm
A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
Barbara of the House of Grebe
On the Western Circuit
The Son's Veto
The Fiddler of the Reels
An Imaginative Woman
The Grave by the Handpost

Hardy's General Preface to the Wessex Edition of 1912
Bibliographical Note
Note on the Text
Explanatory Notes

Details

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2005
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780140431247
ISBN-10:	0140431241
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hardy, Thomas
Redaktion:	Hill, Susan
Zusammengestellt:	Hill, Susan
Hersteller:	Penguin Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	181 x 111 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Thomas Hardy
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.06.2005
Gewicht:	0,347 kg