Tales from Longpuddle. Level 2. A2-B1: Thomas Hardy

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Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he`s not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy`s tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time.
Retold by Jennifer Bassett.