The Mayor of Casterbridge - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

 
9781904633112: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1904633110 ISBN 13: 9781904633112
Verlag: CRW Publishing, 2003

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Drunk and bitter at the world, the young Michael Henchard sells his wife to a sailor at Weydon Priors fair. The next morning he vows to give up drink and mend his terrible ways. Twenty years later he is mayor of Casterbridge, a rich and important figure who little suspects the past is about to rear up and attack him. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a masterpiece of Victorian literature, bringing the classical forms of tragedy into the modern world with striking force, showing a proud and noble man overwhelmed by his past and the forces of fate.

With an Afterword by Peter Harness.

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Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840, the eldest of four children. At the age of sixteen he became an apprentice architect. With remarkable self discipline he developed his classical education by studying between the hours of four and eight in the morning. With encouragement from Horace Moule of Queens' College Cambridge, he began to write fiction. His first published novel was Desperate Remedies in 1871. Thus began a series of increasingly dark novels all set within the rural landscape of his native Dorset, called Wessex in the novels. Such was the success of his early novels, including A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) and Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), that he gave up his work as an architect to concentrate on his writing. However he had difficulty in getting Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1889) published and was forced to make changes in order for it to be judged suitable for family readers. This coupled with the stormy reaction to the negative tone of Jude the Obscure (1894) prompted Hardy to abandon novel writing altogether. He concentrated mainly on poetry in his latter years. He died in January 1928 and was buried in Westminster Abbey; but his heart, in a separate casket, was buried in Stinsford, Dorset.

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In ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ (Engelstalig) is de jonge, dronken Michael Henchard boos op de wereld. Op de markt van Weydon Priors verkoopt hij zijn vrouw aan een zeeman. De volgende ochtend doet hij echter de gelofte om de drank op te geven en zijn leven te beteren.
Twintig jaar later is hij burgemeester van Casterbridge, en is een gearriveerd en belangrijk man, en heeft hij geen enkel vermoeden dat zijn verleden hem alsnog zal gaan achtervolgen.
‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ is een meesterwerk uit de victoriaanse literatuur, waarin de klassieke vorm van een tragedie op overtuigende wijze in een modern jasje gestoken wordt. Het toont een trots en edel mens, die door zijn verleden en krachten van het lot wordt overrompeld.

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Verlag
CRW Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1904633110
ISBN 13 
9781904633112
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Anzahl der Seiten
426
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