内容简介
None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Caster bridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex. the partly real, partly dreamcotintry' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts therise and self-induced downfall of a single man of character. The fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force, and features some of the authors most striking episode sand brilliant passages of de*ion.