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A haunting study of guilt and lost love
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled "A Story of a Man of Character," Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.
This edition includes an introduction, chronology of Hardy's life and works, the illustrations for the original serial issue, place names, maps, glossary, full explanatory notes as well as Hardy's prefaces to the 1895 and 1912 editions.
Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.
While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of novels, including Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). Hardy's poetry, though prolific, was not as well received during his lifetime. It was rediscovered in the 1950s, when Hardy's poetry had a significant influence on the Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Philip Larkin.
Most of his fictional works - initially published as serials in magazines - were set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. They explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. Hardy's Wessex is based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom and eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England.
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这年头这样富有戏剧性的故事不多的。好喜欢经典的味道。厌世者怎会不喜欢这本书呢。
评分故事的结构明显是精心设计过的,但也因精心设计而显得不可信,简单来说就是狗血(比如那几个坏人搞了点巫术就把Lucetta弄死,还有Newson明明死了又活过来);另一缺点就是人物塑造(characterization)挺平庸的,过于扁平没有个性,没有让我留下深刻印象的人物。
评分这年头这样富有戏剧性的故事不多的。好喜欢经典的味道。厌世者怎会不喜欢这本书呢。
评分听这本的时候正好又在读Saul和David的事,巧合地发现了两个故事惊人的相似。在哈代笔下,悲剧是注定了的。"happiness is just an occasional episode in the general drama of pain"
评分听这本的时候正好又在读Saul和David的事,巧合地发现了两个故事惊人的相似。在哈代笔下,悲剧是注定了的。"happiness is just an occasional episode in the general drama of pain"
结识这本书不是因为它的作者、也不是因为它的名声、更不是因为与它有美好的过往,周末去区图书馆为儿子借书,一时好奇自己也办理了一个图书证,明知道里面的书很少且旧,但是它改换门庭以后,地方变大了环境更优雅、更惬意了,另外图书管理员虽然不是很热情但还是很友善的...
评分原来的新文艺版是繁体,结果81年的译文版加入了部分简体的页码。虽然不多,但是看到了就有点吃了麻辣怪味豆的感觉。原因不明,或许当初的新文艺版本就有这个问题(那就要出来一个穿越时空的怪侠了),或者工人排版错误(那就要追究责任编辑的问题了)。 这种情况还是第一次碰...
评分恩,这个是我在高三暑假时读的书了~~当时觉得还是很舒服的,看完了以后有种了解了人情世故的感觉,惟一的感觉就是,人啊,不能只为一个人活着~
评分‘幸福不过是一场痛苦的大戏曲里偶然的插曲而已’。但聪明的人能将这个插曲无限演奏下去,就像书中的伊丽莎白-杰恩。她平庸、浅薄,没有过火的感情,反而能够村姑变淑女(戏剧性似乎过了头)。到底是纽逊的女儿——一个探险家,但却是平庸的探险家。她的伴侣伐尓伏雷,脑子里全...
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics) pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024