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The Withered Arm

Thomas Hardy, Jennifer Bassett

Narrator Multiple Narrators

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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: —