Life's Little Ironies: Selected Stories

Thomas Hardy, (Introduction) Claire Seymour

ISBN 10: 1853261785 / ISBN 13: 9781853261787

Editore: Wordsworth Editions, 1998

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(Wordsworth Classics). The tales which make-up this volume re-create a rapidly vanishing rural world and scrutinize the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life. 184p. Pap. Codice articolo 691849

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Titolo: Life's Little Ironies: Selected Stories

Casa editrice: Wordsworth Editions

Data di pubblicazione: 1998

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto:

Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The proverbial phrase 'life's little ironies' was coined by Hardy for his third 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 characterisation, the shrewd and critical psychology, the poignant estimate of human nature and the brooding sense of wonder at the essential mystery of life. The tales which make up Life's Little Ironies tenderly re-create a rapidly vanishing rural world and scrutinise the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life. They share the many concerns of Hardy's last great novels, such as the failure of modern marriage and the insidious effects of social ambition on the family and community life. Ranging widely in length and complexity, they are unified by Hardy's quintessential irony, which embraces both the farcical and the tragic aspects of human existence.

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Thomas Hardy (1840 1928), enduring author of the twentieth century, wrote the classics Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and many other works.