The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales

The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 387
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ISBN-10 : 9780141922027
ISBN-13 : 0141922028
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Book Synopsis The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales by : Thomas Hardy

Download or read book The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales written by Thomas Hardy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The darkly passionate short stories of Thomas Hardy are compelling explorations of love, social class, superstition and legend. This collection contains many of his finest and most representative, and includes 'The Withered Arm', an eerie depiction of arcane witchcraft in nineteenth-century England; 'Barbara of the House of Grebe', in which a beautiful man's tragic disfigurement by fire is savagely exploited by his rival; 'The Son's Veto', showing the cruelty of an educated youth towards his ignorant but tender mother; and 'The Distracted Preacher', the story of one man's conflict between heartfelt love and his own sense of moral and civic duty. By turns moving and poetic, and surprisingly modern and brutally macabre, these eloquent tales may be numbered among the greatest creations of Hardy's genius.


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