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Wessex Tales
Wessex Tales
Wessex Tales
Wessex Tales
Wessex Tales
Wessex Tales
Wessex Tales
Wessex Tales

Wessex Tales

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Product Code:
1556-01
ISBN
978-619-152-657-4
SKU
20.0024
Year
06-07-2015
Translation
From English: Vesela Katzarova
Pages
344
Size
170/240 мм
Weight
0.65 kg
Collection
Колекция "Върхове"
Cover Type
Hardcover
Genre
Classics, Short Stories

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially 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. While Hardy wrote p…

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Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy to realism and from tragedy to comedy.

In insisting on the unusual nature of any story worth the telling, and with his gift for irony and compassion, Hardy achieves more in the genre of the short story than any English novelist before him.

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