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Author(s): Hardy, Thomas
Reader(s): Jason, Neville
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0085
Barcode: 9781843795834
Release Date: 06/2012
HARDY, T.: Wessex Tales (Unabridged)
Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories including The Three Strangers, The Withered Arm and The Distracted Preacher, deal with a number of timeless themes seen so often in Hardy’s work, including marriage, class, revenge and disappointed love. Many of the tales have a supernatural tinge, and all are set around Hardy’s much loved homeland.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Hardy, Thomas - Author
Jason, Neville (Reader)
|  | 1 | Preface | 04:04 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | An Imaginative Woman | 07:51 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | The Marchmill family accordingly took possession of the house… | 07:06 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | She thoughtfully rose from her chair… | 06:37 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | One day the children had been playing hide-and-seek… | 07:27 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | Just then a telegram was brought up. | 05:31 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | While she was dreaming the minutes away thus… | 06:10 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | On Saturday morning the remaining members… | 05:30 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | It was about five in the afternoon when she heard a ring… | 04:36 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 10 | The painter had been gone only a day or two… | 04:39 |
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| | 11 | She wrote to the landlady at Solentsea… | 06:26 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 12 | The months passed… | 05:12 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 13 | The Three Strangers | 07:58 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | The fiddler was a boy of those parts… | 05:57 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | At last the notes of the serpent ceased… | 06:19 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | Meanwhile the general body of guests had been taking… | 05:13 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | Now the old mead of those days… | 05:21 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | No observation being offered by anybody… | 06:13 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | All this time the third stranger had been standing… | 05:31 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | Thus aroused, the men prepared to give chase. | 08:01 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | It was eleven o'clock by the time they arrived. | 07:57 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | The Withered Arm Chapter 1: A Lorn Milkmaid | 05:22 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 10 | Chapter 2: The Young Wife | 08:55 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 11 | Chapter 3: A Vision | 06:13 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 12 | At these proofs of a kindly feeling towards her… | 03:52 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 13 | Chapter 4: A Suggestion | 04:34 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | She mused on the matter the greater part of the night… | 04:42 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | Chapter 5: Conjuror Trendle | 06:53 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | Chapter 6: A Second Attempt | 06:47 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | Chapter 7: A Ride | 07:27 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | And then the pretty palpitating Gertrude Lodge… | 05:02 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | Chapter 8: A Waterside Hermit | 07:30 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | Chapter 9: A Rencounter | 08:06 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | Fellow Townsmen Chapter 1 | 05:26 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | Talking thus they drove into the town. | 06:14 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 10 | Chapter 2 | 06:39 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 11 | They both remained standing for a few seconds… | 05:43 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 12 | She had remained standing till now… | 07:49 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | Chapter 3 | 06:34 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | Chapter 4 | 08:52 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | Chapter 5 | 06:01 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | After that he went back to the bedroom… | 08:24 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter 6 | 08:42 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | The tone of her latter words was equivocal… | 06:08 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | Chapter 7 | 06:07 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | Barnet's life at this period was singularly lonely… | 05:17 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | Chapter 8 | 04:50 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 10 | Barnet took the first letter… | 07:46 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 11 | Impulse in all its forms characterised Barnet… | 07:41 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 12 | Chapter 9 | 03:05 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 5
| | 1 | The barmaid sighed again, and raised one of her hands… | 05:46 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | The newly-arrived gentleman went back to the hotel… | 06:01 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | She gave him her hand and then they sat down. | 08:07 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | She watched him safely through the gate… | 04:50 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | Interlopers at the Knap Chapter 1 | 05:09 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | They were travelling in a direction… | 06:37 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | Chapter 2 | 05:46 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | The footfall ceased, and they arose… | 06:57 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | His mother gazed upon him in grieved suspense… | 07:19 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 10 | Chapter 3 | 06:26 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 11 | The general conversation thus begun… | 07:26 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 12 | The heart of Darton was subject to sudden overflowings. | 06:54 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 13 | Chapter 4 | 02:07 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 6
| | 1 | When the Christmas holidays came… | 07:08 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | As this child learnt to walk and talk… | 03:53 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | Chapter 5 | 07:12 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | He waited and waited to hear from Johns… | 04:54 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | Anniversaries having been unpropitious… | 04:30 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | The Distracted Preacher Chapter 1: How His Cold Was Cured | 05:48 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | Stockdale sat down… | 07:42 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | When they were laid open… | 07:16 |
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| | 9 | Stockdale sat in the deep chair… | 05:28 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 10 | Next day he had better fortune… | 04:07 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 11 | Chapter 2: How He Saw Two Other Men | 06:22 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 12 | Chapter 3: The Mysterious Greatcoat | 06:30 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 13 | Stockdale went into his room and lay down as before. | 08:38 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 7
| | 1 | One morning, on looking from his window… | 03:05 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | Chapter 4: At the Time of the New Moon | 05:40 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | Lizzie soon ascended a small mound… | 04:37 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | Stockdale went forward and said at once… | 07:14 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter 5: How They Went to Lulstead Cove | 05:54 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | The hired carriers paced along over Chaldon Down… | 06:33 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | While Owlett thus conversed… | 07:26 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | Chapter 6: The Great Search at Nether-Moynton | 06:19 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | By this time not a male villager was to be seen… | 07:37 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 10 | The smugglers remained in a blank silence… | 05:47 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 11 | Chapter 7: The Walk to Warm'ell Cross and Afterwards | 05:33 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 12 | 'Well, Lizzie,' said Stockdale… | 06:06 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 13 | The road was lonely, and after nightfall… | 07:37 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 8
| | 1 | Stockdale was leaning with his elbow on the mantelpiece… | 05:37 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | One day, two years after the parting… | 04:45 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four | 07:14 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | 'The flocks my father had charge of…' | 05:55 |
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| | 5 | 'All this time I had not waked Uncle Job…' | 06:22 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion Chapter 1 | 03:33 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | It all began with the arrival of the York Hussars… | 06:41 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | Chapter 2 | 07:48 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | Chapter 3 | 05:38 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 10 | The next time that she saw him… | 06:28 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 11 | Chapter 4 | 04:42 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 12 | Phyllis had thus braced herself… | 04:39 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 13 | Chapter 5 | 05:03 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 14 | On the open green stretching before her… | 05:01 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 10:34:07