Life's Little Ironies

by Thomas Hardy

Overview

While the tales and sketches reflect many of the strengths and themes of the great novels, they are powerful works in their own right. Unified by his quintessential irony, strong visual sense, and engaging characters, they deal with the tragic and the humorous, the metaphysical and the magical. The collection displays the whole range of Hardy's art as a writer of fiction, from fantasy to uncompromising realism, and from the loving re-creation of a vanished rural world to the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783962557706
Publisher:	Serapis Classics
Publication date:	09/30/2017
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	171
File size:	676 KB

About the Author

REAL AUTHOR – DECEASED.

Alan Manford is the editor of a 1985 edition of Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes and a 1996 edition of Life's Little Ironies. He is also the editor of Hardy's novel The Woodlanders (The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, 2019). He is the author of several articles concerning Hardy alongside his self-published novels and poetry.

Date of Birth:

June 2, 1840

Date of Death:

January 11, 1928

Place of Birth:

Higher Brockhampon, Dorset, England

Place of Death:

Max Gate, Dorchester, England

Education:

Served as apprentice to architect James Hicks

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	vi
	General Editor's Preface	vii
	Map of Hardy's Wessex	viii
	Introduction	xi
	Note on the Text	xxviii
	Select Bibliography	xxxvi
	A Chronology of Thomas Hardy	xxxviii
	Life's Little Ironies	1
Appendix A	The 1896 Preface	219
Appendix B	Textual Variation in "On the Western Circuit"	220
Appendix C	The First Draft of "Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver"	225
	Explanatory Notes	231
	Dialect Glossary	252