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 a...
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.
The man finished his basin, and called for another, the rum being signalled for in yet stronger proportion. The effect of it was soon apparent in his manner, and his wife but too sadly perceived that in strenuously steering off the rocks of the licensed liquor-tent she had only got into maelstrom depths here amongst the smugglers. (查看原文)
finally finished. it was a good—read in general. I could hardly repress my tears reading the final part. It seems to me to be a story of humanity. Henchard is the complex humanity incarnated. He is impulsive, a bit too self-esteemed but good-hearted. ...
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托马斯·哈代 作者
蝶蝶不休
上海译文出版社2002版
0 有用 寺青 2014-11-19 14:57:04
哈代一贯冷静不动声色的态度在这本书里有点给characterization拖后腿的意思啊。。。为什么对最近读的十九世纪小说都累觉不爱。。。heart塞。
0 有用 寺青 2014-11-19 14:57:04
哈代一贯冷静不动声色的态度在这本书里有点给characterization拖后腿的意思啊。。。为什么对最近读的十九世纪小说都累觉不爱。。。heart塞。