Wessex Tales, Volume 1: Twenty short stories transport readers into ?eight thousand years in the life of an English village? deep in the Dorset countryside. Features stone age hunters, Viking raiders, a troubadour lost in dark woods, a medieval wedding, and an oak tree?s life. Then, a smuggler travels by night, men hoist the last stone on Stonehenge, and the Battle of the Somme. Wessex Tales tells these stories and a dozen more.