The Withered Arm

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London! where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset! whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels! including Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure . This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928. Zusammenfassung Features jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick. This title includes fables! decadence! heartbreak! tall tales! satire! ghosts! battles and elephants.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Hardy
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2016
• EAN: 9780241251607
• ISBN: 978-0-241-25160-7
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 160 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Little Black Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature