"The short stories of Edward Thomas (1878-1917) hold a special attraction for the present-day reader. In prose and poetry Thomas revealed a deep love of the countryside he observed so closely and his acute perception of man in his natural environment places Thomas's work among the finest writing of the early twentieth century. This volume brings together twenty-five memorable stories from four separate collections never previously reprinted. Most of them were written in 1909-1910, at a time of rare personal happiness and creative fulfilment, when Thomas felt at ease with his own kind of prose and his off-beat subject-matter. The harsh treatment of social misfits, the pressures of the modern industrial age, the conflicts of the creative writer and the formative experiences of frequent visits to Wales all display his emerging power as a writer with a heightened sensitivity for the plight of others. In his introduction, Professor R. George Thomas examines the writer's complex p
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