[Gutenberg 3047] • Life's Little Ironies / A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters

Life's Little Ironies 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. Table of Contents 1.The Son's Veto 2.For Conscience' Sake 3.A Tragedy of Two Ambitions 4.On the Western Circuit 5.To Please His Wife 6.The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion 7.A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four 8.A Few Crusted Characters 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.