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Life's Little Ironies

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Life's Little Ironies

Life's Little Ironies

January 2024
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    Life's Little Ironies (a phrase coined by Hardy) was Thomas Hardy's third collection of short stories. The volume's eight stories and one sequence of shorter tales (presented in a Canterbury Tales-type framework) had all appeared first in magazines before being gathered together in 1894. Not only do they reflect the strengths and themes of his great novels – they are also themselves powerful works, encompassing tragedy and humour. Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Short Stories of Thomas Hardy, this volume presents an authoritative text which aims to reflect Hardy's original artistic intentions. A full scholarly apparatus includes every authorial revision, from manuscript (where extant) onwards, enabling readers to trace Hardy's creative process. An introductory essay gives details of the stories' composition, publishing history and critical reception; there are comprehensive explanatory notes and a glossary, and the illustrations that accompanied the stories' magazine publication also provide valuable context.

    • Presents the text of the stories as contemporary readers would have encountered them, enabling readers to appreciate Hardy's original artistic intentions
    • Provides a thorough account of the stories' genesis and publication and of the critical reception of the first edition
    • Includes a complete record of substantive and accidental variants in all principal texts of the stories, tracing the development of the stories through the different publications and editions in Hardy's lifetime

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    January 2024
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    9781108491433
    350 pages
    235 × 162 × 35 mm
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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • Life's Little Ironies: 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 Eighteen Hundred and Four
    • A Few Crusted Characters
    • Apparatus
    • Editorial Emendations
    • Textual Notes
    • Record of Variants – Accidentals
    • End-of-line Word Division
    • Appendices
    • Explanatory Notes
    • Glossary of Dialect Terms.
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    • Thomas Hardy

      REAL AUTHOR – DECEASED.

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    • Alan Manford

      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.

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