The Hand of Ethelberta
Publisher: Fictionwise, Inc.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chatham
Language: eng
Format: E-book
Description: The tale of an opportunistic yet ultimately loyal adventuress who begins life humbly and ends as the wife of a rakish aristocrat, The Hand of Ethelberta will surprise readers of Thomas Hardy's more familiar, and darker, Wessex novels. Hardy combines elements of domestic melodrama and drawing-room farce with calculated irreverence for literary form.