The Withered Arm - Thomas Hardy
| Автор: | Thomas Hardy |
| Издательство: | Oxford University Press |
| Серия: | Level 1 |
| Жанр произведения: | Зарубежная образовательная литература |
| Год издания: | 2012 |
| isbn: | 9780194787048 |
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. A woman and a man… words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her… It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time – today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern England, has something different about it. Perhaps it is only a dream, or perhaps it is magic – a kind of strange dark magic that begins in the world of dreams and phantoms…