Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy

"Life's Little Ironies" by Thomas Hardy is a collection of tales originally published in 1894. The stories explore what Hardy calls "tricks of Nature" and life's unexpected turns, set in his fictional Wessex region. The collection includes tales of vivid imagination, moral dilemmas, thwarted ambitions, and rural life, ranging from individual character studies to a series of interconnected village sketches. Hardy revised the collection in 1927, rearranging stories to better reflect their thematic connections. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
Title Life's Little Ironies
A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s_Little_Ironies
Contents The son's veto -- For conscience' sake -- A tragedy of two ambitions -- On the western circuit -- To please his wife -- The melancholy hussar of the German legion -- The fiddler of the reels -- A tradition of 1804 -- A few crusted characters.
Credits David Price
Reading Level Reading ease score: 76.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Wessex (England) -- Fiction
Subject Short stories, English
Category Text
EBook-No. 3047
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Oct 3, 2021
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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