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Outside the Gates of the World: Selected Short Stories (Everyman's Library)
Outside the Gates of the World Selected Short Stories - Everyman's Library Author:Thomas Hardy Selected from Wessex Tales, A Group of Noble Dames, Life's Little Ironies and A Changed Man, these short stores tell of revenge, love lost, passions stifled and creeds observed; of "things eternal and universal." Everyday themes are woven in fine folkloric fashion around the enigmatic personages ... more »of the milkmaid and the burgher, the hangman and his victim, as we gather the seeds of some of Hardy's great novels.
The distracted preacher Fellow-townsmen The Honourable Laura The three strangers The romantic adventures of a milkmaid A tryst at an ancient earthwork The withered arm Barbara of the House of Grebe The son's veto On the Western Circuit The fiddler of the reels An imaginative woman« less