Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a moving tale that has vibrant characters, many humorous moments and genuine pathos coupled with tragic irony, Hardy eschews a happy ending. With characteristic derision, he exposes the cr...
Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a moving tale that has vibrant characters, many humorous moments and genuine pathos coupled with tragic irony, Hardy eschews a happy ending. With characteristic derision, he exposes the cruel indifference of the archaic legal system off his day, and shows the tragic consequences of untimely adherence to futile social and religious proprieties
Where the eyes of a multitude continuously beat like waves upon a countenance they seem to wear away its mobile power; but in the still water of privacy every feeling and sentiment unfolds in visible luxuriance, to be interpreted as readily as a printed word by an intruder (查看原文)
It would have been difficult to describe Grace Melbury with precision, either then or at any time. Nay, from the highest point of view, to precisely describe a human being, the focus of a universe--how impossible. BUt apart from transcendentalism, there never probably lived a person who was in herself more completely a reductio ad absurdum of attempts to appraise a woman even externally by items of face and figure. Speaking generelly it may be said that she was sometimes beautiful, at other times not beautiful, according to the state of her health and spirits. (查看原文)
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Penguin Classics1998版
1 有用 树叶的叶 2016-06-24 08:25:56
(1887) R4 read by Juliet Stevenson 借着小失眠居然听完了。你一个爷们为了恋爱和封建婚姻死也是够了。另，哈代的人物对话用词真是矫揉造作
0 有用 钟珊 2018-04-29 01:01:48
儿子初中时买给他的缩写版。
0 有用 cathryn 2017-12-07 22:58:50
比起tess，更喜欢这本
0 有用 Tracy🐕🦺 2014-01-07 16:44:30
这本书买了6年了！每次都是读个开头就放弃了！因为开头大段的环境描写真的很难读进去！但是我这次终于看完了，还看进去了！看电影时候很鄙视doctor，但是看书才知道没有真正的坏人，都是被命运的手推着走，every angel have dirty hands; 说来Marty和Giles才属于同一类人，但是同类不会相互吸引，这就是悲剧的起源；趋利避害，Grace和Doctor都找到了归属，只留Mart... 这本书买了6年了！每次都是读个开头就放弃了！因为开头大段的环境描写真的很难读进去！但是我这次终于看完了，还看进去了！看电影时候很鄙视doctor，但是看书才知道没有真正的坏人，都是被命运的手推着走，every angel have dirty hands; 说来Marty和Giles才属于同一类人，但是同类不会相互吸引，这就是悲剧的起源；趋利避害，Grace和Doctor都找到了归属，只留Marty会活在自己的记忆中。 (展开)