by Thomas Hardy, Jennifer Bassett · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194789257
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«The Withered Arm» is the graded reader by Thomas Hardy adapted by Jennifer Bassett, in paperback, published by OUP Oxford (56 pages, in English).
One summer night, a woman and a man declare their love for each other; then a child arrives without a wedding, and he leaves that woman to marry a younger one. The story, set in the green hill landscape of southern England, seems old and ordinary, but hides something different: perhaps a dream or a strange dark magic born in the world of dreams and ghosts.
It belongs to the Oxford Bookworms Library collection, level 1, with a vocabulary of 400 words and a text of 5,735 words; it was a finalist for the Language Learner Literature Award.
Intended for students of English as a foreign language at elementary level (A1–A2 of the CEFR).
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
