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Title: The Three Strangers Title Record # 995677
Author: Thomas Hardy
Date: 1883-03-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: First published in Longman's, March 1883.
Synopsis: On a rainy night, a shepherd is hosting a jolly gathering at his house. One after another, two strangers arrive and are welcomed in. A third stranger arrives, sees the other two, and quickly backs out the door. Then the news arrives that a prisoner who was to be hanged the next day has escaped from prison. The reader will suspect that the escapee is one of the three men, but which? and will he get away?
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Translations
Year Language Title
1958Translated by an unknown hand.
Spanish Los tres desconocidos
1981Translated by Mihai Rădulescu
Romanian
Cei trei necunoscuți?Cei trei necunoscuti

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Tellers of Tales: 100 Short Stories from the United States, England, France, Russia and Germany 1939-00-00 ed. W. Somerset Maugham Doubleday, Doran  
$3.75?$: US dollar
xxxxii+
1526
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1944-00-00 ed. Phyllis Fraser, Herbert A. Wise Modern Library G72
$2.95?$: US dollar
xix+
1080
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth George Salter Checkmark
Twenty-Two Strange Stories 1945-00-00 ed. John L. Hardie Art & Educational Publishers  
8/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
280
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1947-00-00 ed. Phyllis Fraser, Herbert A. Wise Hammond, Hammond & Co.     832
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Antología de cuentos de misterio y terror 1958-00-00 ed. Juan José López Ibor Editorial Labor (Grandes Antologías Labor)     xxxi+
1319+
[5]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
An Omnibus of British Mysteries 1959-00-00 ed. George Bisserov Juniper Press (The Classics of Mystery #5)  
$5.50?$: US dollar
334
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1971-00-00 ed. Phyllis Fraser, Herbert A. Wise Hammond, Hammond & Co. 0-242-78551-4   832
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Stein Checkmark
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1972-00-00 ed. Phyllis Fraser, Herbert A. Wise Hammond, Hammond & Co. 0-242-78551-4   832
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Stein  
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1977-00-00 ed. Phyllis Fraser, Herbert A. Wise Book Club Associates CN 4361   832
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Necunoscutul: antologie din literatura anglo-saxonă?Necunoscutul: antologie din literatura angle-saxona
1981-00-00 ed. uncredited Editura Junimea (Fantomas #37)     352
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth
Dumitru Verdeș?Dumitru Verdes
 
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1982-00-00 ed. Phyllis Fraser, Herbert A. Wise Hutchinson 0-09-149720-5
£8.95?£: UK pound
832
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Supernatural Tales of Thomas Hardy 1988-12-00 Thomas Hardy W. Foulsham & Co. 0-572-01489-9
£9.95?£: UK pound
288
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1994-00-00 ed. Phyllis Cerf Wagner, Herbert Wise Modern Library 0-679-60128-7
$25.95?$: US dollar
xix+
1034
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Henry Fuseli Checkmark
Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1994-10-00 ed. uncredited Bracken Books 1-85891-137-0
£5.99?£: UK pound
611
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1994-10-00 ed. Phyllis Cerf Wagner, Herbert Wise Modern Library 0-679-60128-7
$21.00?$: US dollar
xix+
1034
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Fuseli Checkmark
Tales of Terror and the Supernatural: A Classic Collection 1996-00-00 ed. uncredited Leopard 1-85891-314-4   [vii]+
611
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Chilling Horror 2015-08-15 ed. Laura Bulbeck Flame Tree Publishing (Gothic Fantasy) 978-1-78361-374-8
£20.00?£: UK pound
480
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Chilling Horror 2016-11-12 ed. Laura Bulbeck Flame Tree Publishing (Gothic Fantasy) 978-1-78664-509-8
£12.00?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth  
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural date unknown ed. Phyllis Cerf Wagner, Herbert Wise Modern Library 0-679-60128-7
$25.95?$: US dollar
xix+
1034
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Henry Fuseli Checkmark
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural date unknown ed. Phyllis Cerf Wagner, Herbert Wise Modern Library 0-394-60446-6
$9.95?$: US dollar
xix+
1034
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Sara Eisenman Checkmark
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