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Life''s Little Ironies

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"An invaluable resource for students of nineteenth-century writing and of Hardy in particular, this edition presents a text which closely reflects Hardy's original intentions. All his revisions are clearly shown, enabling readers to trace his creative process. An introductory essay outlines the stories' composition, publishing history and reception."--

List of contents










Introduction; Life's Little Ironies: The Son's Veto; For Conscience' Sake; A Tragedy of Two Ambitions; On the Western Circuit; To Please his Wife; The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion; The Fiddler of the Reels; A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; A Few Crusted Characters; Apparatus; Editorial Emendations; Textual Notes; Record of Variants - Accidentals; End-of-line Word Division; Appendices; Explanatory Notes; Glossary of Dialect Terms.

About the author

REAL AUTHOR – DECEASED.Alan Manford is the editor of a 1985 edition of Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes and a 1996 edition of Life's Little Ironies. He is also the editor of Hardy's novel The Woodlanders (The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, 2019). He is the author of several articles concerning Hardy alongside his self-published novels and poetry.

Product details

Authors Thomas Hardy
Assisted by Alan Manford (Editor), Manford Alan (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 19.10.2023
 
EAN 9781108491433
ISBN 978-1-108-49143-3
No. of pages 350
Series The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary reference works, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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