Download or read book The Withered Arm and Other Wessex Tales written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy wrote about the people and places he knew, and never more directly than in his short stories. They are full of the characters and incidents of his immediate experience - smugglers, healers, country musicians, local squires and parsons, the eccentric and the strait-laced.