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Life's Little Ironies, by Thomas Hardy
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Title: Life's Little Ironies A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters
Author: Thomas Hardy
Release Date: May 18, 2007 [eBook #3047]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES***
Transcribed from the 1920 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES A SET OF TALES WITH SOME COLLOQUIAL SKETCHES ENTITLED A FEW CRUSTED CHARACTERS
BY THOMAS HARDY
WITH A MAP OF WESSEX
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1920
COPYRIGHT
First Collected Edition 1894. New Edition and reprints 1896-1900 First published by Macmillan & Co., Crown 8ov, 1903. Reprinted 1910, 1915 Pockets Edition 1907, 1910, 1913, 1916, 1919 (twice), 1920 Wessex Edition 1912
CONTENTS
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 A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four A Few Crusted Characters