Wessex Tales

The Wessex short stories: three strangers who shelter from the rain at a shepherd's christening party, one of them the hangman on his way to work, who does not say so; a young wife who lays her withered arm across a hanged man's neck for a cure; a Methodist preacher in love with a widow who runs contraband; two fellow-townsmen whose lives cross over twenty years; and an imaginative woman in love w...