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Index
The Distracted Preacher by Thomas Hardy
Title page
Copyright
Contents
I. How His Cold Was Cured
II. How He Saw Two Other Men
III. The Mysterious Great-Coat
IV. At the Time of the New Moon
V. How They Went to Lullstead Cove and Back
VI. The Great Search at Nether-Moynton
VII. The Walk to Warm'ell Cross; and Afterwards
Illuminations for The Distracted Preacher by Thomas Hardy
Table of Contents
Hardy’s Fictional Universe
Illustration
Introductory
Illustration
Budmouth to Lulstead
Reading I
“A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four” by Thomas Hardy
Reading II
“The Thieves Who Couldn’t Stop Sneezing” by Thomas Hardy
British Liquor Laws
Metropolitan Police Act of 1839
Licensing Act of 1872
Illustration
Contemporary Media
“Drunkenness and Legislation”
“Habitual Drunkenness: A Vice Crime, or Disease?”
“The Liquor Question”
Illustration
Reading III
“On the Abolition of Malt Liquor in Public Offices”
Reading IV
Hungry Johnny
Smugglers Smuggling
Illustration
Illustration
Reading V
An excerpt from Memoirs of a Smuggler, compiled from the journal of John Rattenbury
RecipeRhubarb Wine
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