Author: Thomas Hardy
Title: A Changed Man, the Waiting Supper and Other Tales
Description: London, Macmillan And Co. 1913. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Thomas Hardy's collection of short stories, containing a map of Wessex. The first edition of this work from Thomas Hardy, volume XVIII of The Wessex Novels, containing eleven short stories and a novella.With a frontispiece illustration, and double page illustrated map to the rear. Collated, complete.Containing 'A Changed Man', 'A Waiting Supper', 'Alicia's Diary', 'The Grave by the Handpost', 'Enter a Dragoon', 'A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork', 'What the Shepherd Saw', 'A Committee-Man of 'The Terror'', 'Master John Horseleigh, Knight', 'The Duke's Reappearance', 'A Mere Interlude' and 'The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid&apos.A Victorian realist, Hardy 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. Much of his writing explored this, and was set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Loss to tail of spine, with shelf wear to head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, Good . Ill.: None. Good .
Keywords: Thomas hardy short stories Wessex Novels short stories None
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Title: A Changed Man, the Waiting Supper and Other Tales
Description: London, Macmillan And Co. 1913. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Thomas Hardy's collection of short stories, containing a map of Wessex. The first edition of this work from Thomas Hardy, volume XVIII of The Wessex Novels, containing eleven short stories and a novella.With a frontispiece illustration, and double page illustrated map to the rear. Collated, complete.Containing 'A Changed Man', 'A Waiting Supper', 'Alicia's Diary', 'The Grave by the Handpost', 'Enter a Dragoon', 'A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork', 'What the Shepherd Saw', 'A Committee-Man of 'The Terror'', 'Master John Horseleigh, Knight', 'The Duke's Reappearance', 'A Mere Interlude' and 'The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid&apos.A Victorian realist, Hardy 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. Much of his writing explored this, and was set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Loss to tail of spine, with shelf wear to head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, Good . Ill.: None. Good .
Keywords: Thomas hardy short stories Wessex Novels short stories None
Price: GBP 70.00 = appr. US$ 99.96 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 782F32
- Book number: 782F32
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