num_pages: 428
description: Tales of love lost and revenge won; of passions stifled and creed observed; of 'things eternal and universal'. Such are the everyday themes of Hardy's extraordinary stories woven in fine folkloric fashion around the enigmatic personages of the milkmaid and her burgher, the widow and the preacher, the hangman and his victim.The distracted preacherFellow-townsmenThe Honourable LauraThe three strangersThe romantic adventures of a milkmaidA tryst at an ancient earthworkThe withered armBarbara of the House of GrebeThe son's vetoOn the Western CircuitThe fiddler of the reelsAn imaginative woman
language: English
title: Outside the Gates of the World: Selected Short Stories
titlecomplete: Outside the Gates of the World: Selected Short Stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Classics
ratings_count: 26
publisher: Everymans Library