Thomas Hardy

In reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of "e;Far from the Madding Crowd,"e; as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word "e;Wessex"e; from the pages of early English history, and give it a fictitious significance as the existing name of...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. To the eyes of a man viewing it from behind, the nut-brown hair was a wonder and a mystery. Under the black beaver hat, surmounted by its tuft of black feathers, the long locks, braided and twisted and coiled like the rushes of a basket, composed a rare, if somewhat barbaric, example of ingenious...

The peninsula carved by Time out of a single stone, whereon most of the   following scenes are laid, has been for centuries immemorial the home of   a curious and well-nigh distinct people, cherishing strange beliefs   and singular customs, now for the most part obsolescent. Fancies, like   certain...

The following chapters were written at a time when the craze for indiscriminate church-restoration had just reached the remotest nooks of western England, where the wild and tragic features of the coast had long combined in perfect harmony with the crude Gothic Art of the ecclesiastical buildings scattered along it, throwing into extraordinary...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. An apology is perhaps needed for the neglect of contrast which is shown by presenting two consecutive stories of hangmen in such a small collection as the following. But in the neighbourhood of county-towns tales of executions used to form a large proportion of the local traditions; and though never...

This story of the Mellstock Quire and its old established west-gallery musicians, with some supplementary descriptions of similar officials in Two on a Tower, A Few Crusted Characters, and other places, is intended to be a fairly true picture, at first hand, of the personages, ways, and customs which were common among such orchestral bodies in the...