The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories 1888-1900

The collection features eleven short stories that explore a variety of settings, from the familiar Wessex landscape to aristocratic historical fantasies of the 17th and 18th centuries, alongside contemporary dramas infused with tragedy and irony. Each story is engaging on its own, while also serving as a fertile ground for themes and ideas that are further developed in Hardy's more complex and controversial novels.