WHAT THE SHEPHERD SAW
A TALE OF FOUR MOONLIGHT NIGHTS By Thomas Hardy The genial Justice of the Peace—now,…
TO PLEASE HIS WIFE.
By Thomas Hardy. I. THE interior of St. James’s Church, in Havenpool Town, was slowly…
The Three Strangers
by Thomas Hardy The Three Strangers was published in Wessex Tales in 1888. Among the…
THE SON’S VETO
CHAPTER I To the eyes of a man viewing it from behind, the nut-brown hair…
THE MELANCHOLY HUSSAR OF THE GERMAN LEGION
By Thomas Hardy CHAPTER I Here stretch the downs, high and breezy and green, absolutely…
THE MARCHIONESS OF STONEHENGE
By the Rural Dean THOMAS HARDY OM I would have you know, then, that a…
THE LADY ICENWAY
By the Churchwarden THOMAS HARDY OM In the reign of His Most Excellent Majesty King…
THE HONOURABLE LAURA
By the Spark THOMAS HARDY OM It was a cold and gloomy Christmas Eve. The…
THE GRAVE BY THE HANDPOST
By Thomas Hardy I never pass through Chalk-Newton without turning to regard the neighbouring upland,…
THE FIRST COUNTESS OF WESSEX
By the Local Historian THOMAS HARDY OM King’s-Hintock Court (said the narrator, turning over his…