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]
[The Fidler of the Reels]
[A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four]
[A Few Crusted Characters]