The Fiddler of the Reels and Other StoriesAcknowledgments
General Editor’s Preface
Chronology: Hardy’s Life and Works
Map: Wessex Novels Edition
Bibliographical Note
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the History of the Texts
Short Stories
The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
The First Countess of Wessex
Barbara of the House of Grebe
For Conscience’s Sake
The Son’s Veto
On the Western Circuit
The Fiddler of the Reels
An Imaginative Woman
A Changed Man
Enter a Dragoon
Notes
Appendix I: History of the Short Story Collections
Appendix II: Hardy’s Use of History in “The First Countess of Wessex”
Appendix III: A Note on the Illustrations
Glossary
