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Life’s Little Ironies

Thomas Hardy

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Completed on 23 October 2023
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Thomas Hardy's 'Life's Little Ironies' offers a compelling glimpse into the intricacies of human destiny and the whims of fate. Through a collection of beautifully crafted short stories, Hardy explores the unexpected twists and turns that shape the lives of his characters. From poignant love stories to unforeseen challenges, these tales remind us of the unpredictable nature of life and the enduring power of Hardy's storytelling. 

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THE SON’S VETO

21 October 2023
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To the eyes of a man viewing it from behind, the nut-brown hair was a wonder and a mystery. Under the black beaver hat, surmounted by its tuft of black feathers, the long locks, braided and twisted an

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FOR CONSCIENCE’ SAKE

21 October 2023
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Whether the utilitarian or the intuitive theory of the moral sense be upheld, it is beyond question that there are a few subtle-souled persons with whom the absolute gratuitousness of an act of repara

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A TRAGEDY OF TWO AMBITIONS

21 October 2023
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The shouts of the village-boys came in at the window, accompanied by broken laughter from loungers at the inn-door; but the brothers Halborough worked on. They were sitting in a bedroom of the master

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ON THE WESTERN CIRCUIT

21 October 2023
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The man who played the disturbing part in the two quiet lives hereafter depicted—no great man, in any sense, by the way—first had knowledge of them on an October evening, in the city of Melchester. He

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TO PLEASE HIS WIFE

23 October 2023
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TO PLEASE HIS WIFE The interior of St. James’s Church, in Havenpool Town, was slowly darkening under the close clouds of a winter afternoon. It was Sunday: service had just ended, the face of the par

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THE MELANCHOLY HUSSAR OF THE GERMAN LEGION

23 October 2023
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Here stretch the downs, high and breezy and green, absolutely unchanged since those eventful days. A plough has never disturbed the turf, and the sod that was uppermost then is uppermost now. Here sto

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THE FIDDLER OF THE REELS

23 October 2023
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‘Talking of Exhibitions, World’s Fairs, and what not,’ said the old gentleman, ‘I would not go round the corner to see a dozen of them nowadays. The only exhibition that ever made, or ever will make,

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A TRADITION OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FOUR

23 October 2023
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The widely discussed possibility of an invasion of England through a Channel tunnel has more than once recalled old Solomon Selby’s story to my mind. The occasion on which I numbered myself among his

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A FEW CRUSTED CHARACTERS

23 October 2023
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It is a Saturday afternoon of blue and yellow autumn time, and the scene is the High Street of a well-known market-town. A large carrier’s van stands in the quadrangular fore-court of the White Hart I

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