Life’s Little Ironies

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Life’s Little Ironies-Thomas Hardy

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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