Distracted Preacher and Other Tales

The darkly passionate short stories of Thomas Hardy are compelling explorations of love, social class, superstition and legend. This collection contains many of his finest and most representative, and includes ''The Withered Arm'', an eerie depiction of arcane witchcraft in nineteenth-century England; ''Barbara of the House of Grebe'', in which a beautiful man''s tragic disfigurement by fire is sa...