A Group of Noble Dames
Author(s): Thomas Hardy
Genre(s): Historical Fiction, Short Stories
Narrators: Libby Gohn
Number of Chapters: 13
Length: 6 hours and 52 minutes
Language: English
The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue—the faintest tradition of what went on behind the scenes, and this dryness as of dust may be transformed into a palpitating drama. Out of such pedigrees and supplementary material most of the following stories have arisen and taken shape. (Summary adapted from the preface)
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The audiobook A Group of Noble Dames falls under the genres of Historical Fiction, Short Stories. It is written by Thomas Hardy.