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Tess of the D'urbervilles
Hardy's most outstanding work and one of the greatest works of English literature. The novel takes the encounter of the heroine Tess as the main line, describing the conflict between the beautiful poetic image and the surrounding gloomy reality, and vividly and concretely describes the disintegration of the small-scale peasant economy after capitalism invaded the British countryside at the end of the 19th century and the painful process of individual farmers heading towards poverty and bankruptc
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A Woman with a Rich Imagination: Selected Short Stories by Hardy (Bilingual Translation by Lin)
"A Woman with a Rich Imagination - Selected Short Stories by Hardy" selects 10 short stories by the British novelist Hardy: "Building a House", "The Sneeze Thief", "The Shepherd's Four Months Night", "Three Strangers", "An Old Friend from Gaogang", "Old News from the Countryside", "On the Western Patrol", "A Woman with a Rich Imagination", "The Return of the Prodigal Son" and "Old Lady Rose". These stories mostly narrate folklore through memories. The characters in the stories are ordinary but v
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Jude the Obscure
The novel narrates the tragedy of the life of rural young Jude in a tragic tone. Jude was studious, thoughtful and diligent in self-study, but he was always rejected from the university. The heroine Shu is smart and beautiful, and more importantly, has an independent personality and thoughts, and despises secularity and rigid religion. However, her love with Jude is not tolerated by the church and despised by the world. Jude's ambition was unrewarded, he had no way to find a job, and he had no w
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Tess (Guomai Classic)
Tess, a graceful woman, as sensitive as gossamer and as pure as snow. On a misty moonlit night, Tess followed her "cousin" Alec, who was pretending to be a noble, into a hunting forest. From then on, her life suffered an irreversible change. The shadow of this sad experience enveloped Tess, and she could not let go even if she met the love of her life, Claire. Tess experienced sweet love and suffered painful separation. When her husband left and life was difficult, Alek's entanglement again pull
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Tess (World Famous Translation Library Hardy Collection)
"Tess" is one of Hardy's important masterpieces. The novel takes the experiences of the heroine Tess as the main line, describing the conflict between the beautiful poetic image and the surrounding gloomy reality. It vividly describes the disintegration of the small-scale peasant economy after capitalism invaded the British countryside at the end of the 19th century and the painful process of individual farmers heading towards poverty and bankruptcy. Through the description of the double persecu
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"Jude the Obscure" (1895) is Thomas Hardy's last novel. Since then, Hardy turned to poetry creation, and "Jude" is also considered the "swan song" of his novels. Hardy claimed to write about "the life-and-death struggle between spirit and body" in the book, and narrated the tragic life of rural young Jude in a pathos style. Jude was poor, lonely and sentimental. After hard work, he studied on his own, overcame many obstacles, and came to Christ's Temple (alluding to Oxford), which he regarded as
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: a Pure Woman (Masterpieces of Foreign Literature Series)
"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is Hardy's masterpiece and one of the "Wessex Series". It describes the tragic fate of a rural girl. Hardy called the heroine "a pure woman" in the novel's subtitle, openly challenging the hypocritical social morals of the Victorian era. Zhang Guyuo is famous for his successful translation of three of Hardy's novels: "The Return of the Native", "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", and "Jude the Obscure". Among them, the translation of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is the most p
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Tess of the D'urbervilles
Hardy's most outstanding work and one of the greatest works of English literature. The novel takes the encounter of the heroine Tess as the main line, describing the conflict between the beautiful poetic image and the surrounding gloomy reality, and vividly and concretely describes the disintegration of the small-scale peasant economy after capitalism invaded the British countryside at the end of the 19th century and the painful process of individual farmers heading towards poverty and bankruptc
—Reads8.4Score—Shelves