Life's Little Ironies

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Pub. Date: 1998-01-01
Publisher(s): Wordsworth
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Summary

The phrase "life's little ironies" is now proverbial, but it was coined by Hardy as the title for this, his third volume of short stories, including such classics as An Imaginative Woman and A Tragedy of Two Ambitions. Unified by his quintessential irony, strong visual sense, and engagingcharacters, these stories deal with the tragic and the humorous, the metaphysical and the magical. This edition is the first to be based on a critical examination of all available manuscript and printed versions of the texts.

Table of Contents

An Imaginative Woman
1(23)
The Son's Veto
23(14)
For Conscience' Sake
37(16)
A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
53(22)
On the Western Circuit
75(22)
To Please his Wife
97(16)
The Fiddler of the Reels
113(16)
A Few Crusted Characters
129(1)
Introduction
129(3)
Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver
132(8)
The History of the Hardcomes
140(8)
The Superstitious Man's Story
148(3)
Andrey Satchel and the Parson and Clerk
151(7)
Old Andrey's Experience as a Musician
158(2)
Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir
160(3)
The Winters and the Palmleys
163(7)
Incident in the Life of Mr George Crookhill
170(4)
Netty Sargent's Copyhold
174

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