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The Withered Arm (Adaptation)

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The Withered Arm (Adaptation)

By: Thomas Hardy, Jennifer Bassett - adaptation
Narrated by: Claire Wille
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Adapted from the story by Thomas Hardy. 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.

©2004 Oxford University Press (P)2008 Oxford University Press
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