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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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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.
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"...But her strong sense that neither she nor any human being deserved less than was given, did not blind her to the fact that there were others receiving less who had deserved much more."
评分一个为过去的错误深深忏悔的男人，却始终得不到谅解，究竟是世人，是命运，还是上天，不肯放过他，让他在孤独和贫困中离去。 回望百多年前的英伦小镇，那里的男人女人，似乎都遵循着某种古老的法则，承受着自己的人生。
评分用一天的时间读完32万字的《卡斯特桥市长》。 是读的第五本哈代，熟悉他的风格和套路，所以读得很流畅很投入。哈代的书里常有极端可怖的死亡，比如裘德和苏吊死的孩子们，骑着狗赶路的奄奄一息的芬妮。但是还是被《卡斯特桥市长》的离奇所震惊，故事是一幕一幕环环相扣的悲剧...
评分 评分一个倒霉的男人，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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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。
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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"
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