The Withered Arm
Thomas Hardy, Jennifer Bassett
Narrator Multiple Narrators
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Summary
A woman and a man ...words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her ...It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time - today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern England, has something different about it. Perhaps it is only a dream, or perhaps it is magic - a kind of strange dark magic that begins in the world of dreams and phantoms ...
Duration: about 1 hour (01:03:10) Publishing date: 2007-12-06; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2008. Copyright Statment: —