Download or read book Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 The Three Strangers and Other Stories written by Thomas Hardy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word count 11,680

Download or read book The Three Strangers and Other Stories With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Thomas Hardy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd’s cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night . . . In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives of shepherds and hangmen, dukes and teachers. But rich or poor, young or old, they all have the same feelings of fear, hope, love, jealousy . . .

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Download or read book The Three Strangers written by Hardy Thomas and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Three Strangers" is a short story by Thomas Hardy from 1883. The story is a pastoral history 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. "The Three Strangers" was published in Longman's Magazine and Harper's Weekly in March 1883. Five years later it became the first of five stories in Hardy's Wessex Tales.

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