内容简介
Hardy tests the skill of any narrator. Not only must the reader dramatize differences of age, sex, region, and class among the characters who inhabit the fictional county of Wessex in the last century, but the straight narration must also showcase the eloquence of Hardy's prose. Vincent Brimble manages all this with ease. Which is fortunate, since the seven uneven tales here might seem downright dull in print. The first and best piece, "The Three Strangers," pulls out all the stops: a violent storm on the downs, three mysterious strangers who seek shelter in a shepherd's cabin where a rousing christening party is in progress, and the booming of a cannon to announce the escape of a prisoner nearby. In other stories (e.g., "Fellow Townsmen") the characters seem wooden, with plots turning too much on coincidence. Woven through all, however, are lively descriptions of life in Somerset 50 years or so before Hardy's time: accounts of milkin..
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作者简介：
SEKECTED STORIES,With an Introduction and Notes by Michael irwin,professor of English Literature,University of Kent at Canterbury.
目录
INTRoDUCTIoN
PREFACE
THE THREE STRANGERS
A TRADITl0N OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FoUR
THE MELANCHoLY HUS SAR oF THE GERMAN LEGIoN
THE WITHERED ARM
A Lorn Milkmaid
TheYoung Wife
A Vision
A Suggestion
Coniuror Trendle
A SecondAttempt
ARide
A Waterside Hermit
A Rencounter
FELLoW—ToWNSMEN
INTERLOPERS AT THE KNAp
THE DISTRACTED PREACHER
How His Cola Was Cured
How He Saw Tb0 0tber Men
The Mysterious Greatcoat
At the Time ofthe New Mobn
How They Went tO Lulwind Cove
The Great Search at Nether-moynton
The Walk to Warm'ell Cross；and AOerwards
NOTES
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