內(nèi)容簡介:Jude Fawley is a bright but impoverished stonemason who aspires to attend university and become a scholar. H is failure to fulfill the expectations of the two women he loves points to his final tragedy. Concerned with the destructive conventions of marriage and the English class system, Jude the Obscure is a raging indictment of Victorian society; the censure of this insightful book was almost without precedent in the history of English literature.
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、小說家。他是橫跨兩個世紀(jì)的作家,早期和中期的創(chuàng)作以小說為主,繼承和發(fā)揚了維多利亞時代的文學(xué)傳統(tǒng);晚年以其出色的詩歌開拓了英國20世紀(jì)的文學(xué)。
哈代一生共發(fā)表了近20部長篇小說,其中最著名的當(dāng)推《德伯家的苔絲》、《無名的裘德》(Jude the Obscure)、《還鄉(xiāng)》和《卡斯特橋市長》。詩8集,共918首,此外,還有許多以“威塞克斯故事”為總名的中短篇小說,以及長篇史詩劇《列王》。