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"The Three Strangers" is a short story by Thomas Hardy, first published in Longman's Magazine and Harper's Weekly in March 1883. It later it became the first of five stories in Hardy's 1888 short story collection Wessex Tales .
The story of "The Three Strangers" is told from a point of view fifty years after the main events occur. On a rainy evening at Higher Crowstairs, a remote house on a hill about five miles from ...
Three strangers, each dealing with a serious problem, share a sweepstakes ticket which they wished upon together before a Chinese idol. According to a legend, if three strangers gather before an idol of Kwan Yin (the Chinese goddess of fortune and destiny) on the night of the Chinese New Year and make a common wish, Kwan Yin will open her eyes and her heart and grant the wish.
Three Strangers is definitely one of the more unusual programming choices by Eddie Muller for TCM's Noir Alley. Despite Muller's insistence that there is a supernatural bent to the film, director Jean Negulesco's crime drama seemed to me to be focused more on the decisive actions that lead characters down dark paths than on the winds of fate; unfortunately, due to the tripartite writing structure, the narrative always flipped to a different plot line just when things were getting good.
Thomas Hardy's ''The Three Strangers'' is a comical tale of disguise, mistaken identity, and misdirection. Each of the three strangers who appears at the party has his own unique back story, which ...
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The short story ''The Three Strangers'' by Thomas Hardy is a mystery to find who is the criminal at a party. The conflict, or problem, in this story is for the people at the party to discover and ...
