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- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 118
- ISBN-10: 1542739225
- ISBN-13: 9781542739221
- Format: 20.3 x 25.4 x 0.6 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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A Group of Noble Dames is an 1891 collection of short stories written by Thomas Hardy. The stories are contained by a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or 18th century. The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue-the faintest tradition of what went on behind the scenes, and this dryness as of dust may be transformed into a palpitating drama. Out of such pedigrees and supplementary material most of the following stories have arisen and taken shape.
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- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 118
- ISBN-10: 1542739225
- ISBN-13: 9781542739221
- Format: 20.3 x 25.4 x 0.6 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
A Group of Noble Dames is an 1891 collection of short stories written by Thomas Hardy. The stories are contained by a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or 18th century. The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue-the faintest tradition of what went on behind the scenes, and this dryness as of dust may be transformed into a palpitating drama. Out of such pedigrees and supplementary material most of the following stories have arisen and taken shape.
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