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Hardy Thomas

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The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales

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Harmondsworth

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Penguin Books

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1982

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Thomas Hardy s short storied 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 cource, The Distracted Preacher, possibly the most flawless of all.

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The Distracted Preacher; A Mere Interlude; The Withered Arm; A Tragedy of Two Ambitions; The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion; Barbara of the House of Grebe; On the Western Circuit; The Son's Veto; The Fiddler of the Reels; An Imaginative Woman; The Grave by the Handpost.

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0 14 043.124 1

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