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The WoodlandersThomas Hardy The Woodlanders CHAPTER I The rambler who, for old association or other reasons, should trace the forsaken coach-road running almost in a meridional line from Bristol to the south shore of England, would find himself during the latter half of his journey in the vicinit...

Tessin tarinaThomas Hardy Tessin tarina ENSIMÄINEN VAIHE IMPI1 Eräänä iltana loppupuolella toukokuuta tallusteli muuan keski-ikäinen mies Shastonista kotikyläänsä Marlottia kohti, joka sijaitsi läheisessä Blakemoren eli Blackmoorin laaksossa. Kovin olivat hänen jalkansa raihnaiset ja käyntinsä vi...

Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other VersesThomas Hardy Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses APOLOGY About half the verses that follow were written quite lately. The rest are older, having been held over in MS. when past volumes were published, on considering that these would conta...

A Changed Man, and Other TalesThomas Hardy A Changed Man, and Other Tales PREFATORY NOTE I reprint in this volume, for what they may be worth, a dozen minor novels that have been published in the periodical press at various dates in the past, in order to render them accessible to readers who desi...

Wessex Poems and Other VersesThomas Hardy Wessex Poems and Other Verses PREFACE TO WESSEX POEMS Of the miscellaneous collection of verse that follows, only four pieces have been published, though many were written long ago, and other partly written. In some few cases the verses were turned into p...

A Group of Noble DamesThomas Hardy A Group of Noble Dames PREFACE The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue – the faintest tradition of...

The Trumpet-MajorThomas Hardy The Trumpet-Major PREFACE The present tale is founded more largely on testimony – oral and written – than any other in this series. The external incidents which direct its course are mostly an unexaggerated reproduction of the recollections of old persons well known ...

The Return of the NativeThomas Hardy The Return of the Native PREFACE The date at which the following events are assumed to have occurred may be set down as between 1840 and 1850, when the old watering place herein called “Budmouth” still retained sufficient afterglow from its Georgian gaiety and...

Time's Laughingstocks, and Other VersesThomas Hardy Time's Laughingstocks, and Other Verses PREFACE In collecting the following poems I have to thank the editors and proprietors of the periodicals in which certain of them have appeared for permission to reclaim them.Now that the miscellany is bro...

The Mayor of CasterbridgeThomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge 1 One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in Upper Wessex, on foot. They we...