Wessex Tales
👓 Hardy T.Wessex Tales
✅ Thomas Hardy (1️⃣8️⃣4️⃣0️⃣-1️⃣9️⃣2️⃣8️⃣) 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 7️⃣ stories show the range of Hardys story-telling 🗣️ gifts 🎁.