《The Withered Arm》是托馬斯·哈代創作的短篇小說，改編版圖書由詹妮弗·巴塞特改寫、鮑勃·哈維繪製插圖，牛津大學出版社出版，ISBN包含9780194789257。原著被收錄於企鵝經典小黑書，包含《The Withered Arm》和《止不住打噴嚏的賊》兩個故事。
故事以維多利亞時代英格蘭南部農場為背景，通過被遺棄的擠奶女工與農場主新娘的視角展開。前者在夢境中詛咒後者導致其手臂萎縮，兩人試圖通過法師和觸摸絞刑者屍體進行治療，最終新娘病逝而農場主捐獻遺產。該作融合哥德式鬼怪元素與超自然信仰，展現心理力量對生理病痛的影響，哈代自稱情節基於真實事件改編。牛津書蟲版將這一奇幻敘事重構為包含黑暗魔法元素的分級讀物
基本介紹
- 作者：Hardy, Thomas; Bassett, Jennifer; Harvey, Bob
- 出版時間：2008年3月
- 頁數：64 頁
- ISBN：9780194789257
- 定價：10.60 元
內容簡介
A woman and a man ...words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her ...It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time - today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern Engl...(展開全部) A woman and a man ...words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her ...It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time - today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern England, has something different about it. Perhaps it is only a dream, or perhaps it is magic - a kind of strange dark magic that begins in the world of dreams and phantoms ...
