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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1883

Originally published
  
March 1883

Series
  
Wessex Tales

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Media type
  
Print

Followed by
  
"The Withered Arm"

Author
  
Thomas Hardy

Genre
  
Short story

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Published in
  
Longman's Magazine Harper's Weekly

Publication types
  
Periodical literature, Book

Similar
  
Thomas Hardy books, Classical Studies books

The three strangers by thomas hardy short story full unabridged audiobook


"The Three Strangers" is a short story by Thomas Hardy from 1883.

Contents

Thomas hardy s the three strangers 52 films in 52 weeks


Background

The story is a pastoral history 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.

Publication

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

References

The Three Strangers Wikipedia