The goal: A new short story, every weekday, for a year. That's about 260 stories, for anyone keeping count. This is Volume #1, covering January and February stories. Inside you'll find a mix of Fantasy, Literary and Science Fiction, occasionally seasoned with a dash of Horror. Every now and again though, I'll shar...
A headstrong Victorian beauty has her choice of three different suitors: a sheep farmer, a dashing soldier, and a prosperous, older bachelor.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891 and in book form in 1892. Though now considered a major nineteenth-century English novel and possibly...
"Jude the Obscure" tells the story of Jude Fawley, a village stonemason in the southern English region of Wessex who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modeled on Oxford.
I welcome you to a resource for IGCSE students studying the poems of Thomas Hardy. Here you will find resources on the background and analysis of the poems written by students at The King's School Canterbury. Feel free to comment and add your thoughts and analysis. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
Lara, a recent arrival to a coyote colony made up of resisters who are physically deformed in one way or another, is surprised to find hope from an unexpected source. This was written for the #MyHandmaidsTale contest. Please press the *star button to vote if you enjoyed. I appreciate your support and welcome y...
"Anna Karenina" is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though with less tolerance for h...