The Fletcher family moves into a new home, nestled between two churches in a small village on the moors, but their excitement fades as ten-year-old Tom Fletcher is convinced that he is being watched and the village is reminded of the "accidental" deaths of three toddlers during the last ten years when two-year-old Milly and five-year-old Joe Fletcher disappear.
This is the story of Little Nell Trent and her grandfather as they wandered through English towns and countryside and of Daniel Quilp's compulsion to destroy the happiness of Nell and her friends.
Follows the heroine's adventures and struggle against poverty, from her birth at Newgate Prison in seventeenth-century England to her success in the American colonies.
Collects three short stories by Thomas Hardy, including the title selection about a love triangle involving a woman, a good but plain man, and a villain.
Growing up in a northern English town after World War II, seventeen-year-old Robert, clever student and formidable rugby player, finds himself drawn into a passionate affair with a young teacher at his school.