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SHORT STORIES OF THOMAS HARDY
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Address: http://www.geocities.com/hardyshortstories/
Contact: Darlyn Thomas (luvwombats@yahoo.com)
Date: 07/01/04
Provides the "Introduction" to A Few Crusted Characters and texts of more than fifty of Hardy's short stories: "Alicia's Diary," "Blue Jimmy: The Horse Stealer," "Destiny and a Blue Cloak," "The Doctor's Legend," "The Duke's Reappearance," "Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver," "The History of the Hardcomes," "The Superstitious Man's Story," "Andrey Satchel and the Parson," "Old Andrey as a Musician," "Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir," "The Winters and the Palmleys," "Incident in Mr. Crookhill's Life," "Netty Sargent's Copyhold," "The Fiddler of the Reels," "For Conscience' Sake," "The Grave By the Handpost," "The First Countess of Wessex," "Barbara of the House of Grebe," "The Marchioness of Stonehenge," "Lady Mottisfont," "The Lady Icenway," "Squire Petrick's Lady," "Anna, Lady Baxby," "The Lady Penelope," "The Duchess of Hamptonshire," "The Honourable Laura," "How I Built Myself a House," "Interlopers at the Knap," "the Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion," "A Mere Interlude," "Old Mrs. Chundle," "Our Exploits at West Poley," "The Son's Veto," "The Spectre of the Real," "The Thieves Who Couldn't Stop Sneezing," "The Three Strangers," "To Please His Wife," "A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four," "A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork," "The Unconquerable," "A Changed Man," "A Committee-Man of 'The Terror,'" "The Distracted Preacher," "Enter a Dragoon," "Fellow-Townsmen," "An Imaginative Woman," "Master John Horseleigh, Knight," "On the Western Circuit," "Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid," "The Three Strangers," "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions," "The Waiting Suppper," "What the Shepherd Saw," and "The Withered Arm."
COMMENT:
A list of the sources from which the story texts were derived is provided in an alphabetical list by story title and, also, according the the volumes in which the stories appeared. See our GENERAL CAUTION about such texts.