Hardy: Wessex Tales (unabridged)

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Release Date: 5th Jun 2012
Catalogue No: NA0085
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Series: Complete Classics
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

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Thomas Hardy: Wessex Tales (Unabridged)

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Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Preface

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An Imaginative Woman

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The Marchmill family accordingly took possession of the house…

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She thoughtfully rose from her chair…

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One day the children had been playing hide-and-seek…

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Just then a telegram was brought up.

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While she was dreaming the minutes away thus…

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On Saturday morning the remaining members…

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It was about five in the afternoon when she heard a ring…

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The painter had been gone only a day or two…

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She wrote to the landlady at Solentsea…

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The months passed…

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The Three Strangers

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The fiddler was a boy of those parts…

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At last the notes of the serpent ceased…

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Meanwhile the general body of guests had been taking…

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Now the old mead of those days…

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No observation being offered by anybody…

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All this time the third stranger had been standing…

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Thus aroused, the men prepared to give chase.

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It was eleven o'clock by the time they arrived.

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The Withered Arm Chapter 1: A Lorn Milkmaid

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Chapter 2: The Young Wife

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Chapter 3: A Vision

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At these proofs of a kindly feeling towards her…

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Chapter 4: A Suggestion

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She mused on the matter the greater part of the night…

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Chapter 5: Conjuror Trendle

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Chapter 6: A Second Attempt

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Chapter 7: A Ride

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And then the pretty palpitating Gertrude Lodge…

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Chapter 8: A Waterside Hermit

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Chapter 9: A Rencounter

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Fellow Townsmen Chapter 1

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Talking thus they drove into the town.

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Chapter 2

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They both remained standing for a few seconds…

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She had remained standing till now…

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Chapter 3

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Chapter 4

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Chapter 5

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After that he went back to the bedroom…

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Chapter 6

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The tone of her latter words was equivocal…

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Chapter 7

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Barnet's life at this period was singularly lonely…

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Chapter 8

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Barnet took the first letter…

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Impulse in all its forms characterised Barnet…

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Chapter 9

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The barmaid sighed again, and raised one of her hands…

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The newly-arrived gentleman went back to the hotel…

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She gave him her hand and then they sat down.

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She watched him safely through the gate…

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Interlopers at the Knap Chapter 1

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They were travelling in a direction…

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Chapter 2

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The footfall ceased, and they arose…

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His mother gazed upon him in grieved suspense…

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Chapter 3

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The general conversation thus begun…

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The heart of Darton was subject to sudden overflowings.

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Chapter 4

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When the Christmas holidays came…

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As this child learnt to walk and talk…

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Chapter 5

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He waited and waited to hear from Johns…

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Anniversaries having been unpropitious…

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The Distracted Preacher Chapter 1: How His Cold Was Cured

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Stockdale sat down…

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When they were laid open…

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Stockdale sat in the deep chair…

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Next day he had better fortune…

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Chapter 2: How He Saw Two Other Men

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Chapter 3: The Mysterious Greatcoat

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Stockdale went into his room and lay down as before.

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One morning, on looking from his window…

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Chapter 4: At the Time of the New Moon

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Lizzie soon ascended a small mound…

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Stockdale went forward and said at once…

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Chapter 5: How They Went to Lulstead Cove

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The hired carriers paced along over Chaldon Down…

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While Owlett thus conversed…

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Chapter 6: The Great Search at Nether-Moynton

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By this time not a male villager was to be seen…

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The smugglers remained in a blank silence…

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Chapter 7: The Walk to Warm'ell Cross and Afterwards

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'Well, Lizzie,' said Stockdale…

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The road was lonely, and after nightfall…

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Stockdale was leaning with his elbow on the mantelpiece…

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One day, two years after the parting…

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A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four

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'The flocks my father had charge of…'

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'All this time I had not waked Uncle Job…'

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The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion Chapter 1

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It all began with the arrival of the York Hussars…

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Chapter 2

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Chapter 3

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The next time that she saw him…

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Chapter 4

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Phyllis had thus braced herself…

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Chapter 5

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On the open green stretching before her…

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Hardy: Wessex Tales (unabridged)

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