內容簡介
HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!'Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world, Tess of the D'Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she attempts to escape the poverty of her background, seeking wealth by claiming connection with the aristocratic D'Urberville family. It is through Tess's relationships with two very different men that Hardy tells the story of his tragic heroine, and exposes the double standards of the world that she inhabits with searing pathos and heart-rending sentiment.
作者簡介
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Eliot, he was also influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially by William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens is another important influence on Thomas Hardy. Like Dickens, he was also 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 such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). However, since the 1950s Hardy has been recognized as a major poet, and had a significant influence on The Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Phillip Larkin.
The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex and 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 south west England.
托馬斯·哈代(Thomas Hardy),英國詩人、小說傢。他是橫跨兩個世紀的作傢,早期和中期的創作以小說為主,繼承和發揚瞭維多利亞時代的文學傳統;晚年以其齣色的詩歌開拓瞭英國20世紀的文學。
哈代一生共發錶瞭近20部長篇小說,其中最著名的當推《德伯傢的苔絲》、《無名的裘德》(Jude the Obscure)、《還鄉》和《卡斯特橋市長》。詩8集,共918首,此外,還有許多以“威塞剋斯故事”為總名的中短篇小說,以及長篇史詩劇《列王》。
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Collins Classics)[德伯傢的苔絲] [平裝] 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書 格式
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Collins Classics)[德伯傢的苔絲] [平裝] 下載 mobi pdf epub txt 電子書 格式 2024
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Collins Classics)[德伯傢的苔絲] [平裝] mobi epub pdf txt 電子書 格式下載 2024