From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels. Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in early nineteenth-century England, the story build into an awesome Sophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willful Henchard rises to a position of wealth and power–only to suffer a most bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to his own destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, “Hardy’s Lord Jim…his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction.
Craig Raine Knihy
Craig Raine je uznávaný básnik a kritik, ktorého dielo sa vyznačuje precíznym jazykom a prenikavým pohľadom na ľudskú skúsenosť. Vo svojej poézii často skúma témy pamäti, rodiny a kultúrnej identity, pričom jeho štýl je známy svojou intelektuálnou hĺbkou aj emocionálnou rezonanciou. Jeho tvorba býva opisovaná ako inovatívna a literárne náročná, čo z neho robí významnú postavu súčasnej britskej poézie. Raine sa tiež venuje literárnej kritike a esejistike, kde sa zameriava na analýzu a obhajobu kľúčových literárnych diel.
The seventh volume in the British Council's New Writing series. From some of Britain's most formidable literary talent, it places new names alongside more established ones, and offers contributions ranging from poetry to essays, and from short stories to previews of novels in progress.
T. S. Eliot
- 224 stránok
- 8 hodin čítania
A compact biography and guide to one of the greatest English-language poets, T. S. Eliot sheds new light on the themes and events that shaped the life and work of the Nobel laureate.