Tess of the d Urbervilles(苔丝)
点此进入淘宝搜索页搜索分類: 图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction 文学/小说,Classics 名著,
品牌: THOMAS HARDY
基本信息·出版社：Wordsworth Editions Ltd
·页码：360 页
·出版日期：1993年
·ISBN：1853260053
·条形码：9781853260056
·包装版本：1版
·装帧：平装
·开本：32
·正文语种：英语
产品信息有问题吗？请帮我们更新产品信息。
内容简介《Tess of the d Urbervilles(苔丝)》讲述了：Set in Hardy’s Wessex，Tess of the d’Urbervilles is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards。 Its challenging sub-title，A Pure Woman，infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891，and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic。
It tells of Tess Durbeyfield，the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager，who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urberville。 In her search for respectability her fortunes fluctuate wildly，and the story assumes the proportions of a Greek tragedy。 It explores Tess’s relationships with two very different men，her struggles against the social mores of the rural Victorian world which she inhabits and the hypocrisy of the age。
In addressing the double standards of the time，Hardy’s masterly evocation of a world which we have lost，provides one of the most compelling stories in the canon of English literature，whose appeal today defies the judgement of Hardy’s contemporary critics。
作者简介Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (born June 2, 1840, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, Eng.-died Jan. 11, 1928, Dorchester, Dorset) British novelist and poet. Son of a country stonemason and builder, he practiced architecture before beginning to write poetry, then prose. Many of his novels, beginning with his second, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), are set in the imaginary county of Wessex. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), his first success, was followed by The Return of the Native (1878), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895), all expressing his stoical pessimism and his sense of the inevitable tragedy of life. Their continuing popularity (many have been filmed) owes much to their richly varied yet accessible style and their combination of romantic plots with convincingly presented characters. Hardy's works were increasingly at odds with Victorian morality, and public indignation at Jude so disgusted him that he wrote no more novels. He returned to poetry with Wessex Poems (1898), Poems of the Past and the Present (1901), and The Dynasts (1910), a huge poetic drama of the Napoleonic Wars.
媒体推荐Spotlight Reviews
1.Simply Brilliant, June 29, 2001
Reviewer: LostBoy76 (Vancouver, BC Canada)
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the best stories I've ever read. Its characters, especially Tess herself, are so alive and memorable that they stay in your mind long after you've finished the book. That being said, though, it's also not a novel for the casual reader. This book is so thought-provoking and, ultimately, heartbraking that it can't be easily forgotten, and will more than likely leave you with an overwhelming sadness for a long time afterward. I read a lot, and material with very different subject matters, so I'm not being melodramatic when I say that this book left me extremely choked up, and almost on the verge of tears. For a guy in his mid-20's who never gets emotional, I think that's saying quite a lot. It certainly left me with a lot of respect for the author. The reader comes to care so much about Tess, and agonize over the way her life turns out, that it becomes almost unbearable at times. For a fictional tale to have that effect on a person is quite incredible. Difficult or not, anyone who is interested in reading a brilliant and moving story that deserves to be called a classic should read Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
2.One of the Most Extraordinary Novels Ever, July 23, 2003
Reviewer: Melvin Pena (Evanston, IL United States)
Despite its seemingly needless tragedy, its persistently downbeat tone, and its relentlessly persecuted heroine, Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," is without doubt one of the greatest novels I have ever read. And I have read a few. Tess is the only truly well-developed character in the novel, which, coupled with the fact that Hardy renders the landscape of Wessex as to make it a character itself, gives one the sense of a real struggle between humanity and nature. This, for me, is one of the great themes of the novel - the tension between nature and the artifices with which we fill our relations with other people. The beauty of Hardy's pastoral setting is never idyllic - Hardy keeps us always aware that human society, with its false moral standards and technological advancements, is ever encroaching upon the already vanished past.
As the novel begins, Tess Durbeyfield's irresponsible wastrel of a father is casually and jokingly informed by the local minister that he is a descendant of a long-degenerated and disenfranchised noble family, the D'Urbervilles, whose influence stretches back to the Norman invasion. This simple, careless act, nothing more than a name, wreaks such havoc upon everyone in the novel, that I'm actually having a hard time right now even looking at the title - the name itself, now having read the novel, is such a powerful condemnation of status, of privilege, of reputation, of all the injustices of English society from the eighteenth century through the time of this novel, almost the dawn of the twentieth. Sent by her nearly indigent parents, whose heads have swelled with the possibilities of lineage, Tess leaves her home in Marlott, going to claim kinship with the last apparently wealthy D'Urberville, in the village of Trantridge. There she meets Alec D'Urberville, who seduces her. The rest of this powerful novel shows Tess Durbeyfield attempting to piece together a reputable life out of a situation and a condition in which respectability is fundamentally denied her.
"Tess" is a novel steeped, perhaps even choked, with tradition - history, literature, theology, philosphy, economics - Hardy's frame of reference calls all of these to account through the course of the novel. Tess, ostensibly a simple country girl, is forced to reckon with the accumulated weight of human knowledge and thought, no small burden for a girl with only the kind of basic education available in a small rural town. As readers, we are asked to measure the applicability, the efficacy, of the Bible next to Shakespeare, next to Greek mythology next to art - to determine if any of these are capable of fathoming what it means to be human, to endure the myriad experiences of human life, both good and ill.
In her dealings with the changeable Alec D'Urberville, the almost-modern Angel Clare, the farm-hands Izz Huett and Marian, her poor, practically minded mother, Joan, Tess experiences so much of life, mostly of the harshest kind. For me, this is the key facet of the novel. Tess endures. Despite all of her hardships, which are hard indeed, and in the face of the worst kinds of scrutiny and deprecation, both from others and from herself, Tess exhibits a kind of composure, threshold for pain, and strength that are all quite amazing. Daniel Defoe's eighteenth-century "Moll Flanders" is the first character that immediately comes to mind, just in terms of comparable pluck in the face of such overweaning odds.
Though many may disagree with me, I think that Tess, more than simply being the protagonist of the novel, is a real heroine. She is so insistently admirable, so determined to live despite all the forces and pressures arrayed against her from the very outset of the novel, when as a 15 year old girl, she is asked to restore the family's fortunes - it is really just astounding. I regret that I had never read "Tess" before, but I am supremely glad that I have had the chance to do so now. A novel cannot get a higher recommendation from me.
Customer Reviews
1.If you're an adolescent... or still feel like one ..., 3 Nov 2006
Reviewer: Robert Machin (Hampshire, UK)
I have to give Tess five stars because no book I have read before or since has moved me to such a degree. Thirty years later I still have my original copy, entirely disintegrated, the glue dissolved, in part I'm sure by my hot adolescent tears. It simply tore me apart - I remember in particular struggling to finish Tess's letter from Flintcomb-Ash through eyes fogged with grief and that after finishing the book I was well-nigh inconsolable for days. I spent the following summer touring the Dorset locations on my bicycle as a kind of pilgrimage, and remember those cruel hills pretty well too.
But having said that, I was sixteen at the time and emotionally wide open. Reading it five years later, I could hardly get past the clumsiness and infelicities in the writing and the crude manipulation and melodrama of the plot. How could I have fallen for this? Reading it again another ten years further on I better understood the theatricality of it - it should be read in some ways like the old ballads with which Hardy was very familiar, with their highly exaggerated representations of good and evil - but the magic had gone.
Maybe the key is that Tess is a book written by an emotional adolescent - Hardy was a writer who arguably never really grew up, and his own relationships seem to bear this out - which speaks most forcefully to other adolescents. The melodrama and the suffering, the torment and the injustice which Tess is put through really are meat and drink to the average sensitive sixteen year old, but seem perhaps a bit foolish in retrospect.
But this isn't really a criticism. 'Tess' is by far the greatest of Hardy's novels and the high point of his career as a novelist (Jude the Obscure would tip over into self parody) and is written with a rare passion - Hardy said that he loved Tess and, although he perhaps had a funny way of showing it, his depth of feeling for his creation really comes through. Like 'The Catcher in the Rye', if you're in the right demographic - a sixteen year old or someone who still feels like one - you're going to love it. If not, you may wonder what all the fuss is about and should perhaps move straight on to Dickens.
2.Magnificent, 2 Sep 2003
Reviewer: "phantasmagorical"
This book was written at the time of Hardy's descent into pessimistic literature, and since I heard that at the time, public controversy was caused by this book, I was quite nervous of reading it, because I had also read Far From The Madding Crowd, which has a great pastoral atmosphere conceived by the wonderful language, and that's it.
Then I realised how tragic yet magnificent this book was when I read it. It truly does elucidate the malicious prejudice of Victorian society against the lower classes (Tess'persistent belief that she is not good enough for Angel Clare was heartwarming.)
This has all the poetry and linguistic marvel of Far From The Madding Crowd, but it had the one catalyst that made me capable of immersing myself with the book - a storyline.
编辑推荐《Tess of the d Urbervilles(苔丝)》由THOMAS HARDY编著。
目录
PHASETHEFIRST
TheMaiden
CHAPTERSI——XI
PHASETHESECOND
MaidenNoMore
CHAPTERSXII——XV
PHASETHETHIRD
TheRally
CHAPTERSXVI——XXIV
PHASETHEFOURTH
TheConsequence
CHAPTERSXXV——XXXIV
PHASETHEFIFTH
TheWomanPays
CHAPTERSXXXV——XLIV
PHASETHESIXTH
TheConvert
CHAPTERSXLV——LII
PHASETHESEVENTH
Fulfilment
CHAPTERSLIII——LIX
NOTESTOTHETEXT
……[看更多目录]
文摘A week afterwards she came in one evening from an unavailingsearch for some light occupation in the immediate neighbourhood.Her idea had been to get together sufficient money during thesummer to purchase another horse. Hardly had she crossed thethreshold before one of the children danced across the room,saying, 'The gentleman's been here！'Her mother hastened to explain, smiles breaking from every inchof her person. Mrs d'Urberville's son had called on horseback,having been riding by chance in the direction of Marlott. He hadwished to know, finally, in the name of his mother, if Tess couldreally come to manage the old lady's fowl-farm or not; the lad whohad hitherto superintended the birds having proved untrustworthy.'Mr d'Urberville says you must be a good girl if you are at all as youappear; he knows you must be worth your weight in gold. He is verymuch interested in 'ee - truth to tell.'Tess seemed for the moment really pleased to hear that she hadwon such high opinion from a stranger when, in her own esteem,she had sunk so low.'It is very good of him to think that,' she murmured; 'and if I wasquite sure how it would be living there, I would go any-when.''He is a mighty handsome man！''I don't think so,' said Tess coldly.'Well, there's your chance, whether or no; and I'm sure he wearsa beautiful diamond ring！''Yes,' said little Abraham, brightly, from the window-bench; 'andI seed it！ and it did twinkle when he put his hand up to hismistarshers. Mother, why did our grand relation keep on putting hishand up to his mistarshers？''Hark at that child！' cried Mrs Durbeyfield, with parentheticadmiration.'Perhaps to show his diamond ring,' murmured Sir John, dream-ily, from his chair.'I'll think it over,' said Tess, leaving the room.'Well, she's made a conquest o' the younger branch of us, straightoff,' continued the matron to her husband, 'and she's a fool if shedon't follow it up.''I don't quite like my children going away from home,' said thehaggler. 'As the head o
……[看更多书摘]
