The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics) 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 英文原版 小說 ThomasHardy Hardy 英國文學 托馬斯·哈代 Victorian 英文
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這年頭這樣富有戲劇性的故事不多的。好喜歡經典的味道。厭世者怎會不喜歡這本書呢。
評分I cried
評分文筆極美,但紛至遝來的寫景真的打亂瞭我的閱讀節奏……大概還是英文水平不夠吧。。
評分I cried
評分I cried
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.
"...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."
評分 評分 評分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...
評分恩,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~
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