Wessex Tales = Уэссекские рассказы: кн. на англ.яз

Thomas Hardy (1840—1928) was an English novelist and poet. In «Wessex Tales» his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. By turns humorous, ironic, macabre, and elegiac, these seven stories show the range of Hardy’s story-telling gifts.