Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN: 9780748691173','ISBN: 9780748632558','ISBN: 9780748632657']); This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude