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Thomas Hardy wrote in a great variety of poetic forms, including lyrics, ballads, satire, dramatic monologues and dialogue, as well as a three-volume epic closet drama The Dynasts (1904–08), [49] and though in some ways a very traditional poet, because he was influenced by folksong and ballads, [50] he "was never conventional," and ...
In the various short stories, Hardy writes of the true nature of nineteenth-century marriage and its inherent restrictions, the use of grammar as a diluted form of thought, the disparities created by the role of class status in determining societal rank, the stance of women in society and the severity of even minor diseases causing the rapid ...
The collection was originally published in book form in 1913, [1] although all of the tales had been previously published in newspapers or magazines from 1881 to 1900. [2] There are eleven short stories and a novella The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. At the end of the book there is a map of the imaginary Wessex of Hardy's novels and poems. [3]
A Group of Noble Dames is an 1891 collection of short stories written by English author Thomas Hardy. The stories are contained by a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or 18th century. Hardy included this work with his "Romances and fantasies".
Life's Little Ironies is a collection of tales written by Thomas Hardy, originally published in 1894, [1] [2] and republished with a slightly different collection of stories, for the Uniform Edition in 1927/8.
The Great Race is a 1965 American Technicolor epic slapstick comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood, written by Arthur A. Ross (from a story by Edwards and Ross), and with music by Henry Mancini and cinematography by Russell Harlan.
Hardy revised the text extensively for the 1895 edition and made further changes for the 1901 edition. [1] The novel has an enduring legacy. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 48 on the BBC's survey The Big Read, [2] while in 2007, it was ranked 10th on The Guardian ' s list of greatest love stories of all time. [3]
The collection contains poems of various dates, with almost a third of its 94 poems having been published before the book's publication. [3] A not untypical thematic stress on life's ironies is present, [4] though Hardy himself was insistent that the title phrase was a poetic image only, and not to be taken as a philosophical belief. [5]