Synopsis
An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories by novelist Thomas Hardy.
Episodes
Season 11E1The Withered ArmIn the early 19th century, a young married woman is stricken with a mysterious malady and searching for a cure leads her in to mysteries and tragedy.75m2E2Fellow TownsmenBarnet has made an unhappy marriage, Downe a happy one. The lives of the 'Fellow Townsmen' become tragically interwoven.75m3E3A Tragedy of Two AmbitionsLike a ghost from the past, the Halborough brothers' drunken father reappears to destroy their image of respectability.75m4E4An Imaginative WomanFate brings Ella Marchmill to rent the rooms of a poet she has always admired. Her admiration gradually turns into obsession.75m5E5The Melancholy HussarA tragic rural romance between a soldier who hates the service, and the rustic maid whose love could save him.75m6E6Barbara of the House of GrebeLord Uplandtowers vows to make Barbara his wife, but she has secret plans of her own.75m
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