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Life's Little Ironies

Thomas Hardy

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Eighteen short stories by a master story teller.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .You’ve had enough already.’

‘Thank you for nothing.  By the bye, who was that spindle-legged, shoe-buckled parson feller we met by now?  He seemed to think we should poison him!’

Joshua remarked coldly that it was the principal of his college, guardedly inquiring, ‘Did you tell him whom you were come to see?’

His father did not reply.  He and his strapping gipsy wife—if she were his wife—stayed no longer, and disappeared in the direction of the High Street.  Joshua Halborough went back to the library.  Determined as was his nature, he wept hot tears upon the books, and was immeasurably more wretched that afternoon than the unwelcome millwright.  In the evening he sat down and wrote a letter to his brother, in which, after stating what had happened, and expatiating upon this new disgrace in the gipsy wife, he propounded a plan for raising money sufficient to indu. . . Read More

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In literatura s-au scris foarte multe povestiri ale caror eroi au fost "oameni mari" si mai putine despre "oameni mici" adica personaje obisnuite care trec prin situatii de viata extraordinare din care avem foarte multe de invatat. In acest volum de povestiri ale lui Thomas Hardy avem asemenea intam

Up until now I've only read one of Thomas Hardy's novels, that being Far From the Madding Crowd and thought it was excellent. Life's Little Ironies (my version is called Selected Short Stories of Thomas Hardy was an excellent collection of short stories published in the late 1800's. The book feature

Hardy ve Turgenyev: Hep hüzün

This particular collection of stories from Thomas Hardy which I only read for the first time two years ago at the start of my Thomas Hardy challenge – are very well named. Hardy is a master at delivering a soft little punch to the guts as his story draws to a close. I say soft punch because so ofte

I read this in Complete Works of Thomas Hardy. Looking at the Wikipedia entry for Life's Little Ironies, it appears that even during Hardy's lifetime the title included different stories depending on date published. The Complete Words references the included edition as one published in 1894 and I th

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