This is the annotated edition including a rare biographical essay on the life and works of the author.
This compilation of Thomas Hardy's short stories is one of the most complete on the book market. Every single story was tracked down and integrated into this book. Hours of enjoyable reading lies ahead of you because Hardy was a real genius among the English fiction writers.
From the contents:
A Changed Man
The Waiting Supper
Alicia's Diary
The Grave By The Handpost
Enter A Dragoon
A Tryst At An Ancient Earth Work
What The Shepherd Saw: A Tale Of Four Moonlight Nights
A Committee-Man Of 'The Terror'
Master John Horseleigh, Knight
The Duke's Reappearance—A Family Tradition
A Mere Interlude
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
The Son's Veto
For Conscience' Sake
A Tragedy Of Two Ambitions
On The Western Circuit
To Please His Wife
The Melancholy Hussar Of The German Legion
The Fiddler Of The Reels
A Tradition Of Eighteen Hundred And Four
A Few Crusted Characters
Tony Kytes, The Arch-Deceiver
The History Of The Hardcomes
The Superstitious Man's Story
Andrey Satchel And The Parson And Clerk
Old Andrey's Experience As A Musician
Absent-Mindedness In A Parish Choir
The Winters And The Palmleys
Incident In The Life Of Mr. George Crookhill
Netty Sargent's Copyhold
An Imaginative Woman
The Three Strangers
... and many more ...