The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales - Hardy, Thomas

Clean, tight, unmarked; age tanned; very light wear to inside corners; spine straight and uncreased; appears unread; Thomas Hardy's short stories reveal a literary persona, a creative intelligence and an imaginative vision uniquely and unmistakably his own. Those contained within this volume are among his finest and most representative and include 'The Withered Arm', one of his best known and most gripping; 'Barbara of the House of Grebe', said by T.S. Eliot to portray 'a world of pure evil'; 'The Son's Veto', regarded by Hardy as his best story; and, of course, 'The Distracted Preacher', possibly the most flawless of all. Like the novels the short stories reveal Hardy's preoccupation with affairs of the heart; with love requited and frustrated, fulfilled or doomed.
Very Good
Soft cover
Penguin Classics
1979
Middlesex, UK