1913 A Changed Man, The Waiting Supper and Other Tales

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of this work from Thomas Hardy, volume XVIII of The Wessex Novels, containing eleven short stories and a novella.

With a frontispiece illustration, and double page illustrated map to the rear. Collated, complete.

Containing 'A Changed Man', 'A Waiting Supper', 'Alicia's Diary', 'The Grave by the Handpost', 'Enter a Dragoon', 'A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork', 'What the Shepherd Saw', 'A Committee-Man of 'The Terror'', 'Master John Horseleigh, Knight', 'The Duke's Reappearance', 'A Mere Interlude' and 'The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid'.

A Victorian realist, Hardy was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. Much of his writing explored this, and was set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex.

With two pages of advertisements to the rear.