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版次：1
页数：362
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印刷时间：2011年12月01日
开本：大32开
纸张：胶版纸
包装：精装
是否套装：否
国际标准书号ISBN：9780679420354

作者:Thomas Hardy　著出版社:Random House US出版时间:2011年12月

内容简介

　　(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Thomas Hardy's almost supernatural insight into the course of wayward lives, his instinctive feeling for the beauty of the rural landscape, and his power to invest that landscape with moral significance all came together in an utterly fluent way in "The Mayor of Casterbridge." A classically shaped story about the rise and fall of the brooding and sometimes brutal Michael Henchard in the harsh world of nineteenth-century rural England, "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is an emblematic product of Hardy's maturity-vigorous, forceful, and unclouded by illusions.

作者简介

　　Thomas Hardy, whose writings immortalized the Wessex countryside and dramatized his sense of the inevitable tragedy of life,was born near Egdon Heath Dorset in 1840, the eldest child of aprosperous stonesmason. As a youth he trained as an architect in1862 obtained a post in London. During this time he began seriouslyto write poetry, which remained his first literary love and hislast. In 1867-68, his fist novel was refused publication, but Underthe Greenwood Tree (1872), his first Essex novel, did well enoughfor him to continue writing. In 1874, Far from the Madding Crowd,published serially and anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine, becamea great success. Hardy married Emma Gifford in1874, and in 1855,they settled at Max Gate in Dorchester, where he lived the rest ofhis life. There he wrote The Return of the Native (1878) The Mayorof Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), and Judethe Obscure (1895). With Tess Hardy clashed with the expectationsof his audience; a storm of abuse broke over the “infidelity” and“obscenity” of this great novel he had subtitled “A Pure WomanFaithfully Presented.” Jude the Obscure aroused even greaterindignation and was denounced as pornography. Hardy’s disgust atthe reaction to Jude led him to announce in 1896 that he wouldnever write fiction again. He published the Wessex Poems in 1898,Poems of the Past and Present in 1901, and from 1903 to 1908, TheDynasts, a huge drama in which Hardy’s conception of the ImmanentWill, implicit in the tragic novels, in most clearly stated. In1912, Hardy’s wife Emma died. The marriage was childless and hadlong been a troubled one, but in the years after her death, Hardymemorialized her in several poems. At 74, he married his longtimesecretary, Florence Dugdale, herself a writer of children’s booksand articles, with whom he lived happily until his death in 1928.His heart was buried in the Wessex countryside; his ashes wereplaced next to Charles Dickens’s in the Poets Corner of WestminsterAbbey.

<p>　　Thomas Hardy, whose writings immortalized the Wessex country
side and dramatized his sense of the inevitable tragedy of life,
was born near Egdon Heath Dorset in 1840, the eldest child of a
prosperous stonesmason. As a youth he trained as an architect in
1862 obtained a post in London. During this time he began seriously
to write poetry, which remained his first literary love and his
last. In 1867-68, his fist novel was refused publication, but Under
the Greenwood Tree (1872), his first Essex novel, did well enough
for him to continue writing. In 1874, Far from the Madding Crowd,
published serially and anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine, became
a great success. Hardy married Emma Gifford in1874, and in 1855,
they settled at Max Gate in Dorchester, where he lived the rest of
his life. There he wrote The Return of the Native (1878) The Mayor
of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), and Jude
the Obscure (1895). With Tess Hardy clashed with the expectations
of his audience; a storm of abuse broke over the “infidelity” and
“obscenity” of this great novel he had subtitled “A Pure Woman
Faithfully Presented.” Jude the Obscure aroused even greater
indignation and was denounced as pornography. Hardy’s disgust at
the reaction to Jude led him to announce in 1896 that he would
never write fiction again. He published the Wessex Poems in 1898,
Poems of the Past and Present in 1901, and from 1903 to 1908, The
Dynasts, a huge drama in which Hardy’s conception of the Immanent
Will, implicit in the tragic novels, in most clearly stated. In
1912, Hardy’s wife Emma died. The marriage was childless and had
long been a troubled one, but in the years after her death, Hardy
memorialized her in several poems. At 74, he married his longtime
secretary, Florence Dugdale, herself a writer of children’s books
and articles, with whom he lived happily until his death in 1928.
His heart was buried in the Wessex countryside; his ashes were
placed next to Charles Dickens’s in the Poets Corner of Westminster
Abbey.</p>

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