A Changed Man: The Waiting Supper and Other Tales, Concluding with the Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid; Life's Little Ironies: A Set of Tales with Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters; A Group of Noble Dames: That Is to Say, the F…

xii, [2], 328; xv, [1], 238; xiv, 190 pp. Introductions by Gilbert Phelps, illustrations from wood engravings by Peter Reddick. A collection of stories by the author of Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. Includes: Volume 1: A Changed Man; The Waiting Supper; Alicia's Diary; The Grave by the Handpost; Enter a Dragoon; A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork; What the Shepherd Saw; A Committee-Man of 'The Terror'; Master John Horseleigh, Knight; The Duke's Reappearance; A Mere Interlude; The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid; Volume 2: An Imaginative Woman; The Son's Veto; For Conscience' Sake; A Tragedy of Two Ambitions; On the Western Circuit; To Please His Wife; The Fiddler of the Reels; A Few Crusted Characters: Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver; The History of the Hardcomes; The Superstitious Man's Story; Andrey Satchel and the Parson and Clerk; Old Andrey's Experience as a Musician; Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir; The Winters and the Palmleys; Incident in the Life of Mr George Crookhill; Netty Sargent's Copyhold; Appendix: The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion; A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; Volume 3: A Group of Noble Dames: Dame the First: The First Countess of Wessex; Dame the Second: Barbara of the House of Grebe; Dame the Third: The Marchioness of Stonehenge; Dame the Fourth: Lady Mottisfont; Dame the Fifth: The Lady Icenway; Dame the Sixth: Squire Patrick's Lady; Dame the Seventh: Anna, Lady Baxby; Dame the Eighth: The Lady Penelope; Dame the Ninth: The Duchess of Hamptonshire; Dame the Tenth: The Honourable Laura.