Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : England
ISBN : ONB:+Z312337805
Life's Little Ironies
Thomas Hardy
Life S Little Ironies
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Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction
Sophie Gilmartin
Author : Sophie Gilmartin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748632558
Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction by Sophie Gilmartin Pdf
This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period when he was moving progressively in the direction of exchanging fiction for poetry. * Unique in providing a comprehensive criticism of Hardy's entire output of short stories. * Full, detailed, close readings of a number of key stories make this useful as a potential teaching resource. * Draws on the work of social historians to make clear the background of social and political unrest in Dorset that is partly uncovered and partly hidden in Hardy's portrayals of his fictional Wessex. * Offers fascinating insights into Hardy's near-obsession in his mature phase with the marriage contract, and with its legal binding of erratic men and women.
Life's Little Ironies
Thomas Hardy
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664653178
Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy Pdf
Life's Little Ironies is a collection of tales written by Thomas Hardy, originally published in 1894, and republished with a slightly different collection of stories, for the Uniform Edition in 1927/8. There is a Prefatory Note to the revised edition, written by the author, which says this of the above contents: "Of the following collection the first story, 'An Imaginative Woman', originally stood in Wessex Tales, but was brought into this volume as being more nearly its place, turning as it does upon a trick of Nature, so to speak, a physical possibility that may attach to a wife of vivid imaginings, as is well known to medical practitioners and other observers of such manifestations.
Life's Little Ironies
Thomas Hardy
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798671709056
Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy Pdf
Life's Little Ironies is a collection of tales written by Thomas Hardy, originally published in 1894, and republished with a slightly different collection of stories, for the Uniform Edition in 1927/8.
Life's Little Ironies
Thomas Hardy
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1502444747
Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy Pdf
Life's Little Ironies is a collection of tales written by Thomas Hardy, originally published in 1894 and republished with a slightly different collection of stories, for the Uniform Edition in 1927/8.
Life's Little Ironies
Thomas Hardy
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy Pdf
Lifes Little Ironies
Thomas Hardy
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : 1st World Library
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1421808714
Lifes Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy Pdf
The proverbial phrase 'life's little ironies' was coined by Hardy for this volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal of the quaint lore of Wessex, the 'Chaucerian' humour and characterization, the shrewd and critical psychology, the poignant estimate of human nature and the brooding sense of wonder at the essential mystery of life. Ranging widely in length and complexity, they are united by Hardy's quintessential irony, embracing both the farcical and the tragic aspects of human existence.
Life's Little Ironies : by Thomas Hardy Is a Collection of Stories
Thomas Hardy
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534885528
Life's Little Ironies : by Thomas Hardy Is a Collection of Stories by Thomas Hardy Pdf
Life's Little Ironies is a collection of tales written by Thomas Hardy, originally published in 1894.There is a Prefatory Note to the revised edition, written by the author, which says this of the above contents: "Of the following collection the first story, 'An Imaginative Woman', originally stood in Wessex Tales, but was brought into this volume as being more nearly its place, turning as it does upon a trick of Nature, so to speak, a physical possibility that may attach to a wife of vivid imaginings, as is well known to medical practitioners and other observers of such manifestations. The two stories named 'A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four' and 'The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion', which were formerly printed in this series, were also transferred to Wessex Tales, where they more naturally belong. The above alterations were first made in the Uniform Edition in 1927. The present narratives and sketches, though separately published at various antecedent dates, were first collected and issued in a volume in 1894. T.H."... Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth.[1] Charles Dickens was another important influence.[2][page needed] Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of novels, including Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). Hardy's poetry, though prolific, was not as well received during his lifetime. It was rediscovered in the 1950s, when Hardy's poetry had a significant influence on the Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Philip Larkin.Most of his fictional works - initially published as serials in magazines - were set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. They explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. Hardy's Wessex is based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom and eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England.
Hardy of Wessex
Carl J. Weber
Author : Carl J. Weber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317199212
Hardy of Wessex by Carl J. Weber Pdf
First published in 1940 and revised in 1965, this work by the distinguished Hardy Scholar, Carl J. Weber, traces Hardy’s literary career from High Brockhampton to the grave in Poet’s corner, Westminster Abbey. Using a multitude of letters, it explains why Thomas Hardy wrote, and how his books grew from ideas, emotions and experiences to the printed volumes that have delighted the world. This book will be of interest to those studying the works of Thomas Hardy and 19th century literature.
Life's Little Ironies
Thomas Hardy
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544691475
Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy Pdf
Life's Little Ironies is a collection of tales written by Thomas Hardy, originally published in 1894, and republished with a slightly different collection of stories, for the Uniform Edition in 1927/8.There is a Prefatory Note to the revised edition, written by the author, which says this of the above contents: "Of the following collection the first story, 'An Imaginative Woman', originally stood in Wessex Tales, but was brought into this volume as being more nearly its place, turning as it does upon a trick of Nature, so to speak, a physical possibility that may attach to a wife of vivid imaginings, as is well known to medical practitioners and other observers of such manifestations. The two stories named 'A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four' and 'The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion', which were formerly printed in this series, were also transferred to Wessex Tales, where they more naturally belong. The above alterations were first made in the Uniform Edition in 1927. The present narratives and sketches, though separately published at various antecedent dates, were first collected and issued in a volume in 1894. T.H." The original collection came out as a pocket edition in 1907 (reprinted nine times); the 1927 revision was reset and issued 1928 (reprinted 1929, 1937, 1953). Six of the stories (excluding "To Please His Wife" and "A Few Crusted Characters") appeared in the Penguin Classic The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories.
The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
Thomas Hardy
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Clipper Audio
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Dorset (England)
ISBN : 1471252191
The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion by Thomas Hardy Pdf
A moving tale from the great writer Thomas Hardy, exposing the inequality of nineteenth century society In this short tragedy, the honourable behaviour of a young woman and the foreign soldier with whom she is in love is confronted by the hypocritical respectability of English society. The story ends in betrayal and execution. The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion contains all the elements of pastoral tragedy that are found in Hardy's novels, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Far From the Madding Crowd.
Life's Little Ironies
Томас Харди
Author : Томас Харди
Publisher : Litres
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040828654
Life's Little Ironies by Томас Харди Pdf
Lifes Little Ironies
Thomas Hardy
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496127188
Lifes Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy Pdf
Life's Little Ironies A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled: A Few Crusted Characters By Thomas Hardy Life's Little Ironies is a collection of tales written by Thomas Hardy, originally published in 1894, and republished with a slightly different collection of stories, for the Uniform Edition in 1927/8. There is a Prefatory Note to the revised edition, written by the author, which says this of the above contents: “Of the following collection the first story, 'An Imaginative Woman', originally stood in Wessex Tales, but was brought into this volume as being more nearly its place, turning as it does upon a trick of Nature, so to speak, a physical possibility that may attach to a wife of vivid imaginings, as is well known to medical practitioners and other observers of such manifestations. The two stories named 'A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four' and 'The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion', which were formerly printed in this series, were also transferred to Wessex Tales, where they more naturally belong. The above alterations were first made in the Uniform Edition in 1927. The present narratives and sketches, though separately published at various antecedent dates, were first collected and issued in a volume in 1894. T.H.” The original collection came out as a pocket edition in 1907 (reprinted nine times); the 1927 revision was reset and issued 1928 (reprinted 1929, 1937, 1953). Six of the stories (excluding "To Please His Wife" and "A Few Crusted Characters") appeared in the Penguin Classic 'The Fiddler of the Reels' and Other Stories.
Life's Little Ironies
Thomas Hardy
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108871082
Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy Pdf
An invaluable resource for students of nineteenth-century writing and of Hardy in particular, this edition presents a text which closely reflects Hardy's original intentions. All his revisions are clearly shown, enabling readers to trace his creative process. An introductory essay outlines the stories' composition, publishing history and reception.
Life's Little Ironies
Thomas Hardy
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN : OSU:32435018443085