Life's Little Ironies - Brossura

Hardy, Thomas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199549699 ISBN 13: 9780199549696

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 2008

Riassunto

The phrase `life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined by Hardy as the title for this, his third volume of short stories.

While the tales and sketches reflect many of the strengths and themes of the great novels, they are powerful works in their own right. Unified by his quintessential irony, strong visual sense, and engaging characters, they deal with the tragic and the humorous, the metaphysical and the magical. The collection displays the whole range of Hardy's art as a writer of fiction, from fantasy to uncompromising realism, and from the loving re-creation of a vanished rural world to the repressions of fin-de-siècle bourgeois life.

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Contenuti:

Includes: An Imaginative Woman; The Son's Veto; For Conscience' Sake; A Tragedy of Two Ambitions; On the Western Circuit; To Please His Wife; The Fiddler of the Reels; A Few Crusted Characters

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Book by Hardy Thomas

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199549699
• ISBN 13: 9780199549696
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Redattore: Manford Alan, Page Norman