Life's Little Ironies

by Thomas Hardy

Overview

This collection of short stories was first published in one volume in 1894, it includes "An Imaginative Woman" orginally published in "Wessex Tales; " "On the Western Circuit", a favorite of Hardy's second wife, Florence; " A Tragedy of Two Ambitions", "The Fiddler of the Reels", "For Conscience Sake", "To Please His Wife", "A Few Crusted Characters", and "The Son's Veto", regarded by Hardy as his best short story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789355844330
Publisher:	True Sign Publishing House
Publication date:	04/20/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	368 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