Kept indoors by rain, the members of a Wessex antiquarian club take turns telling stories drawn from the pedigrees of county families. The Local Historian, the Old Surgeon, the Rural Dean and others recount secret marriages, cruel husbands, disputed children and ladies of rank whose passions the family trees conceal.
Hardy’s dark, ironic stories of the Wessex gentry, with ‘Barbara of the House of Grebe’ among his most chilling. Download the free EPUB.