The Three Strangers
| "The Three Strangers" | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Short story by Thomas Hardy | |||
| Country | United Kingdom | ||
| Language | English | ||
| Genre(s) | Short story | ||
| Publication | |||
| Published in | Longman's Magazine Harper's Weekly | ||
| Publication type | Periodical Book | ||
| Media type | |||
| Publication date | 1883 | ||
| Chronology | |||
| Series | Wessex Tales | ||
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"The Three Strangers" is a short story by Thomas Hardy from 1883.
Background
The story is a pastoral history[1] told by an omniscient narrator more than 50 years after the event. The sheep-stealer is a kind of folk hero who stole to survive and escaped by outsmarting his hangman.
Casterbridge was the name for Dorchester in Thomas Hardy's Wessex.[2]
Publication
"The Three Strangers" was published in Longman's Magazine and Harper's Weekly in March 1883.[3] Five years later it became the first of five stories in Hardy's Wessex Tales.
References
- ^ Kristin Brody (1982). The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy. New York.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Thomas Hardy: Placenames". Neal.Oxborrow.net. Archived from the original on 2012-07-28.
- ^ Pinion, F. B. (1978). A Hardy Companion. London.
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External links
The Three Strangers public domain audiobook at LibriVox
