Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Thomas Hardy and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 1886 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Hardy's most powerful novels, "The Mayor of Casterbridge" opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard--having gained power and success as the mayor--finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is a rich, psychological novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause his ruin. This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the authoritative 1912 Wessex edition, as well as Hardy's map of Wessex.
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy Book Analysis written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of The Mayor of Casterbridge with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, one of the author’s famed Wessex novels. It tells the story of the titular character, an upright but temperamental man who earlier sold his wife and daughter on a drunken whim. In the two decades that have passed since then, he has risen from humble beginnings to become respected and wealthy, but he finds that in the end his past catches up with him. Like much of Hardy’s work, The Mayor of Casterbridge challenges Victorian conceptions of morality and explores themes that remain relevant today, including the limitations of the institution of marriage and the differing standards applied to men and woman. Find out everything you need to know about The Mayor of Casterbridge in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Download or read book The Novels of Thomas Hardy written by Anne Smith and published by Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1979 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book TRUMPET MAJOR JOHN LOVEDAY A S written by Thomas 1840-1928 Hardy and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Noorul Hasan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-06-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Thomas Hardy and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge is one of his best-known novels. It begins with a wife-selling, an event not as uncommon in British rural history as one might like to suppose. Atlantic Monthly called it a strong, vivid story and thought Hardy more virile and humourous than the mob of lesser novelists who write with alarming ease....
Download or read book Sugar Smoke Song written by Reema Rajbanshi and published by Red Hen Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “sterling debut” short story collection explores immigrant life in prose that is “crisp and economical but also poetic and full of imagery” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The nine linked stories of Reema Rajbanshi’s Sugar, Smoke, Song are set in the Bronx, California, India, and Brazil. Following the secrets and passions of young women, these stories and their narrators cross genres and rules to arrive at unforeseen lives. A subway rider remembers enacting the gods with her estranged twin; a concert usher discovers her tango-dancing boyfriend’s lover; and a literacy worker confesses the gambles she and others have lost through the bluesy singers she admires. Told through semi-experimental play with nonlinear plots, plural narrators, and hybrid prose, these stories embody the experiences of immigrants from Africa, Asia and South America who carrying histories both unseen and cyclically lived.
Download or read book Vishnu s Crowded Temple written by Maria Misra and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As it enters its sixtieth year of independence, India stands on the threshold of superpower status. Yet India is strikingly different from all other global colossi. While it is the world's most populous democracy and enjoys the benefits of its internationally competitive high-tech and software industries, India also contends with extremes of poverty, inequality, and political and religious violence. This accessible and vividly written book presents a new interpretation of India's history, focusing particular attention on the impact of British imperialism on Independent India. Maria Misra begins with the rebellion against the British in 1857 and tracks the country's advance to the present day. India's extremes persist, the author argues, because its politics rest upon a peculiar foundation in which traditional ideas of hierarchy, difference, and privilege coexist to a remarkable degree with modern notions of equality and democracy. The challenge of India's leaders today, as in the last sixty years, is to weave together the disparate threads of the nation's ancient culture, colonial legacy, and modern experience.
Download or read book Far from the Madding Crowd written by Thomas Hardy and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attractive book at a modest price ensures that everyone can share in this supreme literary inheritance. Two of Hardy's best works are included in this volume.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love written by Hillel Matthew Daleski and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing the vast changes in literary criticism that have occurred during the last thirty years, H. M. Daleski reexamines Thomas Hardy's novels in the novelist's own terms, presenting a revisionary account of his treatment of gender. He also shows that Hardy was not as sexist as is asserted in much feminist criticism and that his female characters are sympathetically portrayed as the centers of his fictional worlds. By carefully analyzing the novels, Daleski refutes the generally accepted reason for Hardy's abandonment of fiction at the height of his powers, claiming that he drove himself to a dead end in Jude the Obscure. The typical Hardy plot places a female protagonist in a love triangle with two male protagonists who are portrayed as polar opposites. The woman contradicting a general view of her as victim is always granted the freedom of choice of a marriage partner. She invariably makes the wrong choice, which leads to a bad marriage and disastrous sexual relationships. As this scenario is played out in most of Hardy's novels, the men are presented as distinct types, the types being depicted with rich diversity and with steadily greater psychological depth. Hardy's rendering of sexuality in both his male and his female characters is marked by its originality and profundity. In his intuitions about sexual relations, Daleski maintains Hardy was not outdone by writers such as Lawrence and Joyce. Daleski studies Hardy within his Victorian context, but he also shows that Hardy, both in his depiction of sexuality and in his technical innovations, was in advance of his time. In these respects Hardy deserves to be regarded as a forerunner of the great modernists. In Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love, Daleski offers acute and thoughtful analyses of Hardy's major novels. Avoiding critical jargon, the author has made his book accessible to all readers with an interest in Hardy and his novels, as well as in the study of gender in English literature.
Download or read book How to Study a Thomas Hardy Novel written by John Peck and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Thomas Hardy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After arguing with his wife Susan at a country fair near Casterbridge in Wessex, Michael Henchard, drunk on rum auctions her off, along with their baby daughter, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober and remorseful the next day, he is too late to locate his family and vows not to touch liquor again for 21 years. Some 18 years later, after Newson is lost at sea, Susan seeks out Henchard again, taking her daughter with her. She discovers that Henchard has become a very successful hay and grain merchant and Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety. When the couple is reunited, Henchard proposes remarrying Susan after a sham courtship. However, he is engaged with a woman named Lucetta Templeman, who had nursed him when he was ill and his situation begins to complicate.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Sz Kiss Csaba and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Mere Interlude written by Thomas Hardy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This love story is told from the point of view of the heroine, Baptista. She has loved and lost before but has now decided to marry the neighbour of her mother. On her way home her plans are torn asunder.
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Download or read book Green Hills of Magic written by Ruth Ann Musick and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of this century, miners from nearly every country in Europe and Asia Minor migrated to West Virginia to seek employment in its great collieries. With them they brought many folktales and legends of then homelands. Ruth Ann Musick has collected some of the best and most representative of these stories -- never before published in book form -- in The Green Hills of Magic. In many instances, these tales were first related in family circles in the native languages of the tellers, later to be translated by their younger English-speaking descendants. Entertaining in themselves, the stories are also excellent examples of the diverse folk beliefs and cultural patterns of the national and ethnic immigrant groups. The tales are attractively illustrated with more than twenty black-and-white drawings.
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Thomas Hardy and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1977 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the stunning opening wife-selling scene (at one time a not uncommon phenomenon in England) to the final playing out his tragedy, Michael Henchard proves to be violent, selfish, greedy and crude. At the same time he possesses magnanimity, humility and a comparison that always pleased Hardy.
