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Life's Little Ironies (Dodo Press)
by
Thomas Hardy
1894 short story collection, by the English novelist, short story writer, and poet who was awarded the Order of Merit in 1910.
Paperback, 220 pages
Published
April 20th 2007
by Dodo Press
(first published 1894)
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These stories about family, social ambition - and it's consequences, are deeply ironic. Many of the character's are tragic, the misguided actions of themselves or others impacting upon their fortunes. In these stories we encounter The Great Exhibition of 1851, and the dawn of the railway, we see rural life juxtaposed with a smart London life. Many of the themes that are present in Hardy's novels are present in these hugely readable stories. I do think Hardy was a particularly good short ...more
To sad to be called ironies
Didn't know that Hardy coined 'life's little ironies' but this is a collection of rather heartbreaking at times 'little ironies' - lots of similar Hardy themes - unrequited love, 'grass is always greener'. And some perfectly formed vignettes at the end - stories of magical fiddling musicians and miscreants in the church band.
My favorite stories were: On the Western Circuit- What a dope falling in love with the letters of a woman instead of the woman herself. good stuff. An Imaginative Woman- Again with the tragic love. The Fidlers of the Reels- Wat Ollamoor. Enough said this was a good book.
A sad book. All the stories highlight the ironies of life and have a tragic end. But a few of them were magical..... though am not exactly sure how i would explain this.
A collection of "Wessex" short stories. Good, but also evidence that Hardy was more a master of the novel than the short form.
Wonderful collection of gloomy short stories; typical Hardy. They are very powerful portrayals of human frailty.
Five stars for his exquisite story, "An Imaginative Woman." Small and devastating.
small people, small problems.
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Thomas Hardy, OM, was an English author of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his facination with the supernatural. Though he regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineat...more
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