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Wessex Tales
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Wessex Tales (1888) (edit title/settings)

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In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. But these tales also portray the social and economic stresses of 1880s Dorset, and reveal Hardy's growing scepticism... read more

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AMONG the few features of agricultural England which retain an appearance but little modified by the lapse of centuries may be reckoned the long, grassy and furzy downs, coombs, or ewe-leases, as they are called according to their kind, that fill a large area of certain counties in the south and south-west.

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  1. Thomas Hardy (Author)

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Original Language: English
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Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 1888
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