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Dancing With Mr. Penrose And Other Stories, Geoffrey Becker
Dancing With Mr. Penrose And Other Stories, Geoffrey Becker
Senior Scholar Papers
Stories:
Fallen Angel
The Inheritance
Schlog's Dance
The New World
Dancing With Mr. Penrose
Short Fiction Of Thomas Hardy: An Exploration And Assessment, Rebecca G. Peters
Short Fiction Of Thomas Hardy: An Exploration And Assessment, Rebecca G. Peters
Senior Scholar Papers
Hardy's novels and poetry have received extensive criticism, in due proportion to their merit. Hardy's short stories, however, have been virtually excluded from the annals of Hardy criticism, even though Hardy wrote over forty short stories, several of which are truly outstanding. In part, the reason for this neglect is because of the neglected state of the short story in Victorian England. Short fiction, published mainly only in periodicals and never collected in volume form, was obscured to a large extent by the highly popular serial novel. This thesis examines Thomas Hardy's short stories in the context of both the …