Level 3: the three strangers mp3 pack (Oxford University ELT)

On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of ashepherd's cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or hisbusiness. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only thefirst visitor to call at the cottage that night... In these threeshort stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives ofshepherds and hangmen, dukes and teachers. But rich or poor, young orold, they all have the same feelings of fear, hope, love, jealousy...