Life's Little Ironies: A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters

Lifes Little Ironies is a collection of tales written by Thomas Hardy originally published in 1894 and republished with a slightly different collection of stories for the Uniform Edition in 1927/8. There is a Prefatory Note to the revised edition written by the author which says this of the above contents: Of the following collection the first story An Imaginative Woman originally stood in Wessex Tales but was brought into this volume as being more nearly its place turning as it does upon a trick of Nature so to speak a physical possibility that may attach to a wife of vivid imaginings as is well known to medical practitioners and other observers of such manifestations.