Thomas Hardy's Wessex: Fate, and the English countryside

Thomas Hardy built a fictional county and filled it with characters crushed by chance and convention — the last great Victorian novelist and a major modern poet.

In this collection

• Starlings on the Roof
• After the Visit
• A Week
• The Second Night
• Regret not Me
• An Appeal to America on Behalf of the Belgian Destitute
• What did it Mean?
• The Mother Mourns
• When I Set out for Lyonnesse
• Her Initials
• A few Crusted Characters
• The Abbey Mason
• By Henstridge Cross at the Year's End
• The Dead Drummer
• The Self-Unseeing
• Her Temple
• Dream of the City Shopwoman
• A Trampwoman's Tragedy
• A Wet August
• At Castle Boterel
• Rome: at the Pyramid of Cestius Near the Graves of Shelley and Keats
• What the Shepherd Saw
• On the Death-Bed
• By her Aunt's Grave
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