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Michael Henchard ist einen jungen Mann. Er ist verheiratet und hat eine Tochter. Er ist verbittert über sein Leben und in einen betrunken Laune verkauft er seine Frau und Tochter an einen Seemann. Der nächste Tag bereurt er sich und er schwört einen Eid: er soll den nächsten 21 Jahre nicht mehr trinken. Er sucht noch nach sei... Michael Henchard ist einen jungen Mann. Er ist verheiratet und hat eine Tochter. Er ist verbittert über sein Leben und in einen betrunken Laune verkauft er seine Frau und Tochter an einen Seemann. Der nächste Tag bereurt er sich und er schwört einen Eid: er soll den nächsten 21 Jahre nicht mehr trinken. Er sucht noch nach seine Frau und Tochter aber die beide sind schon mit dem Seemann abgereist nach Canada. Michael arbeitet sich auf in die Stadt wo er sich niederlasst und wird sogar Bürgermeister und Getreidehändler. Nach 18 Jahre kommt aber eine Witwe mit einer Tochter in die Stadt und ab diesen Moment geht alles falsch für Michael. Ich habe dieses Buch wirklich mit viel Spaß gelesen.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Life and Death of a Man of Character. Ed. with an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wilson
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Beschreibung
A haunting study of guilt and lost love in Penguin Classics, Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge is edited with an introduction and notes by Keith Wilson.
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.
This edition includes an introduction, chronology of Hardy's life and works, the illustrations for the original serial issue, place names, maps, glossary, full explanatory notes as well as Hardy's prefaces to the 1895 and 1912 editions.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), born Higher Brockhampton, near Dorchester, originally trained as an architect before earning his living as a writer. Though he saw himself primarily as a poet, Hardy was the author of some of the late eighteenth century's major novels: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), and Jude the Obscure (1895). Amidst the controversy caused by Jude the Obscure, he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life. In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems and his epic drama in verse, The Dynasts.
If you enjoyed The Mayor of Casterbridge, you might like George Eliot's Silas Marner, also available in Penguin Classics.
'The greatest tragic writer among the English novelists'
Virginia Woolf
'Visceral, passionate, anti-hypocrisy, anti-repression ... Hardy reaches into our wildest recesses'
Evening Standard
"Hardy's world is a world that can never disappear." -Margaret Drabble
Hardy, Thomas
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.
Produktdetails
| Einband | Taschenbuch |
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| Herausgeber | Keith Wilson |
| Seitenzahl | 393 |
| Altersempfehlung | ab 18 Jahr(e) |
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.04.2003 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| ISBN | 978-0-14-143978-5 |
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| Reihe | Penguin Classics |
| Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
| Maße (L/B/H) | 19.9/12.9/3.2 cm |
| Gewicht | 326 g |
| Abbildungen | schwarzweisse Abbildungen |