Class 5 Thomas Hardy’s Short Stories The Withered Arm The Distracted Preacher •"How I Built Myself A House" (1865) •"The Winters and the Palmleys" (1891) •"Destiny and a Blue Cloak" (1874) •"For Conscience' Sake" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies) •"The Thieves Who Couldn't Stop Sneezing" (1877) •"Incident in Mr. Crookhill's Life"(1891) •"The Duchess of Hamptonshire" (1878) (collected in A Group of Noble •"The Doctor's Legend" (1891) Dames) •"Andrey Satchel and the Parson and Clerk" (1891) •"The Distracted Preacher" (1879) (collected in Wessex Tales) •"The History of the Hardcomes" (1891) •"Fellow-Townsmen" (1880) (collected in Wessex Tales) •"Netty Sargent's Copyhold" (1891) •"The Honourable Laura" (1881) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) •"On The Western Circuit" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies) •"What The Shepherd Saw" (1881) (collected in A Changed Man and •"A Few Crusted Characters: Introduction" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Other Stories) Ironies) •"A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four" (1882) (collected in Wessex •"The Superstitious Man's Story" (1891) Tales) •"Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver" (1891) •"The Three Strangers" (1883) (collected in Wessex Tales) •"To Please His Wife (nl)" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies) •"The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid" (1883) (collected in A Changed •"The Son's Veto" (1891) (collected in Life's Little Ironies) Man and Other Stories) •"Old Andrey's Experience as a Musician" (1891) •"Interlopers at the Knap" (1884) (collected in Wessex Tales) •"Our Exploits At West Poley" (1892–93) •"A Mere Interlude" (1885) (collected in A Changed Man and Other •"Master John Horseleigh, Knight" (1893) Stories) •"The Fiddler of the Reels" (1893) (collected in Life's Little Ironies) •"A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork" (1885) (collected in A Changed Man •"An Imaginative Woman" (1894) (collected in Life's Little Ironies) and Other Stories) •"The Spectre of the Real" (1894) •"Alicia's Diary" (1887) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories) •"A Committee-Man of 'The Terror'" (1896) (collected in A Changed Man •"The Waiting Supper" (1887–88) (collected in A Changed Man and Other and Other Stories) Stories) •"The Duke's Reappearance" (1896) (collected in A Changed Man and •"The Withered Arm" (1888) (collected in Wessex Tales) Other Stories) •"A Tragedy of Two Ambitions" (1888) (collected in Life's Little Ironies) •"The Grave by the Handpost" (1897) (collected in A Changed Man and •"The First Countess of Wessex" (1889) (collected in A Group of Noble Other Stories) Dames) •"A Changed Man" (1900) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories) •"Anna, Lady Baxby" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) •"Enter a Dragoon" (1900) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Stories) •"The Lady Icenway" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) •"Blue Jimmy: The Horse Stealer" (1911) •"Lady Mottisfont" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) •"Old Mrs. Chundle" (1929) •"The Lady Penelope" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) •"The Unconquerable"(1992) •"The Marchioness of Stonehenge" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) •"Squire Petrick's Lady" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) •"Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) •"The Melancholy Hussar of The German Legion" (1890) (collected in Wessex Tales) •"Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir" (1891) Distracted Preacher

• Written in 1879 • Published as The Distracted Young Preacher in New Quarterly Magazine • Published in Harper’s Weekly (19 April-17 May) Supplement page, every other week. • Then in Wessex Tales…. Withered Arm

• Written in Autumn 1887 • Submitted to Longman’s Magazine – Rejected—too grim and unrelieved • Submitted to Blackwood’s – Told them the story was essentially true – Paid £24 – Appeared in January 1888 – Magazine online

Wessex Tales Publishing history Dramatizations

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2RvrlpX dRU The Withered Arm • The Distracted Preacher, 49-minute TV movie produced in December 1969 by BBC (not online and probably ‘wiped’ to re-use the videotape!) Walk to Casterbridge from Farmer Lodge’s House

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