Wessex TalesWessex Tales is a collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardys birth in 1840. Through them, Thomas Hardy talks about nineteenth century marriage, grammar, class status, how men and women were viewed, medical diseases and more. In 1888, Wessex Tales contained only five stories (The Three Strangers, The Withered Arm, Fellow Townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap, and The Distracted Preacher) all