Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories 1888-1900

The Melancholy Hussar/ A Tragedy of Two Ambitions/ The First Countess of Wessex/ Barbara of the House of Grebe/ For Conscience'' Sake/ The Son''s Veto/ On the Western Circuit/ An Imaginative Woman/ A Changed Man/ Enter a Dragoon
The 11 short storiesin this collection range from those with the Wessex setting familiar from Hardy''s novels, to aristocratic historical fantasies set in the 17th and 18t...