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The Mayor of Casterbridge pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
The Mayor of Casterbridge , by Thomas Hardy , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics :
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. 0in 0in 0pt"> Thomas Hardy ’s first masterpiece, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a scene of such heartlessness and cruelty that it still shocks readers today. A poor workman named Michael Henchard, in a fit of drunken rage, sells his wife and baby daughter to a stranger at a country fair. Stricken with remorse, Henchard forswears alcohol and works hard to become a prosperous businessman and the respected mayor of Casterbridge. But he cannot erase his past. His wife ultimately returns to offer Henchard the choice of redemption or a further descent into his own self-destructive nature. A dark, complex story, The Mayor of Casterbridge brims with invention, vitality, and even wit.
Phillip Lopate , a professor at Hofstra University in New York City, is best known as an essayist (Bachelorhood,” Against Joie De Vivre,” Portrait of My Body”). He is the editor of the anthology Art of the Personal Essay and has written a novel, The Rug Merchant , and a book of poetry, The Daily Round .
一个倒霉的男人,每次当生活似乎展露笑颜的时候,又却是遭受了愚弄,失而复得的前妻,得而复失的女儿,由嫉生恨的伙伴,他似乎应当抱怨命运,他像被诅咒般,无论富有还是贫穷,无论是情场上得意或失意,内心依旧冷清而不安,并由得这骨子里的不安变得暴躁冲动,成为这样的人如...
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評分‘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 pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024