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Wessex Tales
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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Summary
Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories including "The Three Strangers", "The Withered Arm", and "The Distracted Preacher", deals with a number of timeless themes seen so often in Hardy’s work: marriage, class, revenge, and disappointed love. Many of the tales have a supernatural tinge, and all are set around Hardy’s much loved homeland.
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- tonyridgway
- 23-02-15
Entertaining miscellany of short stories.
Each story interesting in isolation and gripping as a whole.Excellent narration.I would recommend Wessex Tales as a good introduction to the works of Thomas Hardy to those not familiar with his particular style of writing.
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- Mister Peridot
- 20-05-16
Reader not for me
This volume is a great set of stories by Hardy. And the reader is very capable. But his voice soon grated on me. Too posh and precse for my taste. Perhaps better suited to Jane Austen or the like. Shame
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- 08-07-13
Excellent scort stories
Interesting to hear Hardy's writing used for shorter stories. Less familiar stories, although I understand that they were dramatized for television in the early 1970's
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- Jo
- 02-02-21
Terrible editing there’s no chapters in correct pl
Who’s job is it or do they let a robot do it.... they take the time to get a good a book narrated but then don’t finish the product by making it easy to locate a chapter .....so if you want to put a particular story on you wouldn’t have a clue how to locate it!!!! There’s no point in having chapters on the audio book if they don’t mean anything !! They cut through stories... very very irritating.... so I’m returning.. if you email on this site ... write what book your want to return and type return they will refund your credit.. there policy is if you don’t love your book you can return!! So don’t ever keep a book you don’t like ..... just click on to email and tell them what book it is and that you want to return it ...
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- Helen Carter
- 10-01-22
Macabre book
Grim short stories, depressingly narrated. Thomas Hardy not at his best. Only surpassed for dreadful narration by 'Two on A Tower' read by Michael Kitchen .
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- Rodney
- 08-12-19
Very disappointed
Not what I thought. The story if there was one was a total disappointment
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