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This is an image of what the cover of "Alicia's Diary," by Thomas Hardy looks like. This image of the cover has a somewhat older looking feel to it with the border surrounding the words on the page and the older and more worn out looking color of the…

This is the Table of Contents in Thomas Hardy's collection, A Changed Man and Other Tales. It is interesting to look at the table of contents and see how he decided to place all of the short stories within the collection because it is likely that…

This is a description of the back cover of Thomas Hardy's collection of "A Changed Man and Other Tales." In the first paragraph of the description, it speaks about the history of Thomas Hardy's short stories and everything that the collection…

This is a page of classified ads in the The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent for the original publication of Alicia's Diary. The ad has contains the early review's of the the story along with naming some of Hardy's other works. The ad is written as…

This is an image of the illustration provided at the end of the story in the magazine version of "On the Western Circuit." A girl and boy cupid are displayed to be looking at and holding open a book which states, "The End," with "CMC" initialed at…

This is an image of Edith crying on the chair. She recognizes the wrongful nature of the love and attachment she possesses for Raye, and this causes her immense grief. This illustration depicts this event as it occurs in the story, "On the Western…

This is an image of the front-piece in the "Life's Little Ironies" volume called A View in "Melchester." This volume is a collection of stories by Thomas Hardy which have a setting in various places with fictional names, including Melchester, in…

This is an imagine of the Church of the Frari that appears in "Alicia's Diary". The description confirms the recount from Alicia in that the church itself is able to be gondola. The description in this piece of the inside matches that of Alicia's…

The image is of the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. This is one of the earliest known photographs of Italy being that it was taken in 1841 by Alexander John Ellis. The photograph was later used in a collection called the 'Italy Deguerreotyped'.…

This is an image of the title page of the title page in the first edition of Hardy's "Life's Little Ironies," which is the collection of short stories that "On the Western Circuit" was originally published in. I thought this image was interesting…