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A Changed Man and Other Tales

Author
Thomas Hardy
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
8 hours 15 minutes
ISBN
9781802568479
Published
30 August 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • transformation
  • consequence
  • human existence
  • fate
  • societal pressures
  • personal awakenings
  • rural life
  • human spirit
  • vulnerabilities
  • resilience

Description

Hardy’s tales of men and women altered by fate, social pressure, and sudden awakening, from rural quiet to sharper consequence. Transformation and resilience in short form. Spoken as when a changed life still sounds like Wessex weather: ordinary until the turn that remakes everything you thought settled.

Author

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) gave English literature its most unforgettable tragic landscapes — the imagined county of Wessex, where heath, village, and market town hold the fate of ordinary lives. In Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Far from the Madding Crowd, he wrote characters undone by chance, desire, and the hard edges of Victorian society.

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