具体描述
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.
作者简介
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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读后感
主人公亨察德是一个性格不太好的人，按现代人的说法他的情商不太高。他脾气暴躁、刚愎自用，而且还很孤傲，不能也不愿与人进行沟通，此外，他的思想还有些狭隘，也不能做到与时俱进，这些都导致了他一步接着一步的犯错，最后把自己弄到了很悲惨的境地。哈代的故事设计的很巧妙...
评分 评分 评分 评分主人公亨察德是一个性格不太好的人，按现代人的说法他的情商不太高。他脾气暴躁、刚愎自用，而且还很孤傲，不能也不愿与人进行沟通，此外，他的思想还有些狭隘，也不能做到与时俱进，这些都导致了他一步接着一步的犯错，最后把自己弄到了很悲惨的境地。哈代的故事设计的很巧妙...
用户评价
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at-hand/once
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。
