Oxford Bookworms Library

Name: Oxford Bookworms Library
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780194232494

by Unknown Author

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56 pages2004Oxford University Press, USAISBN 9780194232494

Children's fiction Short stories Fiction, general Wessex (england), fiction

About this book

A woman and a man . . . words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her . . . It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern England, has something different about it. Perhaps it is only a dream, or perhaps it is magic a kind of strange dark magic that begins in the world of dreams and phantoms . . .

Publication Details

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Pages: 56
ISBN: 9780194232494
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.