The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics)

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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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出版者:Penguin Classics; Reissue edition
作者:Thomas Hardy
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页数:448
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出版时间:2018-11-13
价格:USD 12.95
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780141439785
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  • 英文原版 
  • 小说 
  • ThomasHardy 
  • Hardy 
  • 英国文学 
  • 托马斯·哈代 
  • Victorian 
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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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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。  

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‘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...  

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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...  

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finally finished. it was a good—read in general. I could hardly repress my tears reading the final part. It seems to me to be a story of humanity. Henchard is the complex humanity incarnated. He is impulsive, a bit too self-esteemed but good-hearted. ...  

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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。  

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at-hand/once

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at-hand/once

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Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. 果然如伍尔夫所说,哈代是最伟大的悲剧作家之一。虽然故事有点恶俗,但是语言的精妙和情节的几度转换确实体现了人生的无常。

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