Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy Fiction Classics Short Stories Literary

Wessex Tales is a collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy many of which are set before Hardys birth in 1840In addition to his great Wessex Novels Thomas Hardy wrote Wessex Tales (1896) a collection of six stories written in the 1880s and 1890s that for the most part are as bleakly ironic and unforgiving as the darkest of his great novels -- Jude the Obscure. But this great novelist began and ended his writing career as a poet. In-between he wrote a number of books that many readers find emotionally-wrenching but which are considered among the classics of 19th Century British literature including Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the DUrbervilles.