"The Three Strangers"
Short story by Thomas Hardy
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Short story
Publication
Published inLongman's Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Publication typePeriodical
Book
Media typePrint
Publication date1883
Chronology
SeriesWessex Tales
 
 
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"The Three Strangers" is a short story by Thomas Hardy from 1883.

Background

The story is a pastoral history[1] 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.[2]

Publication

"The Three Strangers" was published in Longman's Magazine and Harper's Weekly in March 1883.[3] Five years later it became the first of five stories in Hardy's Wessex Tales.

References

  1. Kristin Brody (1982). The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy. New York.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. svdgeidvdeheiebeceuiebchive.org/web/20120728055233/http://neal.oxborrow.net/Thomas_Hardy/Hardyplacenames.htm "Thomas Hardy: Placenames". Neal.Oxborrow.net. Archived from the original on 2012-07-28. {{cite web}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help)
  3. Pinion, F. B. (1978). A Hardy Companion. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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