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Hardy: Wessex Tales (unabridged)

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Hardy: Wessex Tales (unabridged)

Hardy: Wessex Tales (unabridged)

read by Neville Jason

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Thomas Hardy: Wessex Tales (Unabridged)
Work length10:33:40
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Preface
Track length4:03
An Imaginative Woman
Track length7:51
The Marchmill family accordingly took possession of the house…
Track length7:06
She thoughtfully rose from her chair…
Track length6:37
One day the children had been playing hide-and-seek…
Track length7:27
Just then a telegram was brought up.
Track length5:31
While she was dreaming the minutes away thus…
Track length6:10
On Saturday morning the remaining members…
Track length5:30
It was about five in the afternoon when she heard a ring…
Track length4:36
The painter had been gone only a day or two…
Track length4:39
She wrote to the landlady at Solentsea…
Track length6:26
The months passed…
Track length5:12
The Three Strangers
Track length7:56
The fiddler was a boy of those parts…
Track length5:56
At last the notes of the serpent ceased…
Track length6:19
Meanwhile the general body of guests had been taking…
Track length5:13
Now the old mead of those days…
Track length5:21
No observation being offered by anybody…
Track length6:13
All this time the third stranger had been standing…
Track length5:31
Thus aroused, the men prepared to give chase.
Track length8:01
It was eleven o'clock by the time they arrived.
Track length7:57
The Withered Arm Chapter 1: A Lorn Milkmaid
Track length5:22
Chapter 2: The Young Wife
Track length8:55
Chapter 3: A Vision
Track length6:13
At these proofs of a kindly feeling towards her…
Track length3:52
Chapter 4: A Suggestion
Track length4:31
She mused on the matter the greater part of the night…
Track length4:41
Chapter 5: Conjuror Trendle
Track length6:53
Chapter 6: A Second Attempt
Track length6:47
Chapter 7: A Ride
Track length7:27
And then the pretty palpitating Gertrude Lodge…
Track length5:02
Chapter 8: A Waterside Hermit
Track length7:30
Chapter 9: A Rencounter
Track length8:06
Fellow Townsmen Chapter 1
Track length5:26
Talking thus they drove into the town.
Track length6:14
Chapter 2
Track length6:39
They both remained standing for a few seconds…
Track length5:43
She had remained standing till now…
Track length7:47
Chapter 3
Track length6:33
Chapter 4
Track length8:52
Chapter 5
Track length6:01
After that he went back to the bedroom…
Track length8:24
Chapter 6
Track length8:42
The tone of her latter words was equivocal…
Track length6:08
Chapter 7
Track length6:07
Barnet's life at this period was singularly lonely…
Track length5:17
Chapter 8
Track length4:50
Barnet took the first letter…
Track length7:46
Impulse in all its forms characterised Barnet…
Track length7:41
Chapter 9
Track length3:02
The barmaid sighed again, and raised one of her hands…
Track length5:45
The newly-arrived gentleman went back to the hotel…
Track length6:01
She gave him her hand and then they sat down.
Track length8:07
She watched him safely through the gate…
Track length4:50
Interlopers at the Knap Chapter 1
Track length5:09
They were travelling in a direction…
Track length6:37
Chapter 2
Track length5:46
The footfall ceased, and they arose…
Track length6:57
His mother gazed upon him in grieved suspense…
Track length7:19
Chapter 3
Track length6:26
The general conversation thus begun…
Track length7:26
The heart of Darton was subject to sudden overflowings.
Track length6:54
Chapter 4
Track length2:05
When the Christmas holidays came…
Track length7:08
As this child learnt to walk and talk…
Track length3:53
Chapter 5
Track length7:12
He waited and waited to hear from Johns…
Track length4:54
Anniversaries having been unpropitious…
Track length4:30
The Distracted Preacher Chapter 1: How His Cold Was Cured
Track length5:48
Stockdale sat down…
Track length7:42
When they were laid open…
Track length7:16
Stockdale sat in the deep chair…
Track length5:28
Next day he had better fortune…
Track length4:07
Chapter 2: How He Saw Two Other Men
Track length6:22
Chapter 3: The Mysterious Greatcoat
Track length6:30
Stockdale went into his room and lay down as before.
Track length8:35
One morning, on looking from his window…
Track length3:04
Chapter 4: At the Time of the New Moon
Track length5:40
Lizzie soon ascended a small mound…
Track length4:37
Stockdale went forward and said at once…
Track length7:14
Chapter 5: How They Went to Lulstead Cove
Track length5:54
The hired carriers paced along over Chaldon Down…
Track length6:33
While Owlett thus conversed…
Track length7:26
Chapter 6: The Great Search at Nether-Moynton
Track length6:19
By this time not a male villager was to be seen…
Track length7:37
The smugglers remained in a blank silence…
Track length5:47
Chapter 7: The Walk to Warm'ell Cross and Afterwards
Track length5:33
'Well, Lizzie,' said Stockdale…
Track length6:06
The road was lonely, and after nightfall…
Track length7:35
Stockdale was leaning with his elbow on the mantelpiece…
Track length5:36
One day, two years after the parting…
Track length4:45
A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four
Track length7:14
'The flocks my father had charge of…'
Track length5:55
'All this time I had not waked Uncle Job…'
Track length6:22
The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion Chapter 1
Track length3:33
It all began with the arrival of the York Hussars…
Track length6:41
Chapter 2
Track length7:48
Chapter 3
Track length5:38
The next time that she saw him…
Track length6:28
Chapter 4
Track length4:42
Phyllis had thus braced herself…
Track length4:39
Chapter 5
Track length5:03
On the open green stretching before her…
Track length4:58
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