卡斯特桥市长THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE

基本信息：

·页码：384
·装帧：平装

内容简介：

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. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

作者简介：

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of the few writers to succeed as both a major novelist and a poet. He is the author of The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure. Several of his novels have been made into films, notably Far from the Madding Crowd (Schlesinger, 1967) and Tess (Polanski, 1979). --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

书评：

From Library Journal
Hardy''s 1866 novel gets the red carpet treatment here. Like Broadview''s recent edition of Dracula (Classic Returns, LJ 1/98), this includes a scholarly preface and introduction, a chronicle of Hardy''s life, and several appendixes. All that for $9.95 makes this an absolute steal.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

From AudioFile
In future times, when people want to know what life was like before the Industrial Revolution--what it was to truly see the stars at night, to live within the pulse of Nature''s rhythms--they will read Thomas Hardy, or they may listen to Alan Rickman''s superb presentation of Hardy''s tragic novel. Rickman''s voice is masculine and seductive; yet by altering tempo, modulating tone, he becomes Hardy''s women and children, utterly compelling as he projects all ranges of emotion. His individualizing dialogue of the human-sized characters, that country chorus who form the backdrop of normality for Hardy''s titanic lovers, is brilliant. Hearing it sent me to the library for another Wessex novel. E.J.M. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Sunday Telegraph
"Cover to Cover''s unabridged readings of classic novels are in a class of their own." --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Review
?Hardy?s world is a world that can never disappear.? ?Margaret Drabble --This text refers to the Paperback edition.