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专辑号：NA314712 发行时间：16/07/1997 所属厂牌：NBC 所属分类： 经典文学 -
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- Thomas HardyTess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy was born near Dorchester on June 2, 1840. Itwas in 1862, when he moved to London to pursue a career in architecture, thathe began to write, but he did not begin his first novel until he moved back toDorset in 1867 to become assistant to John Hicks, an architect and churchrestorer. Only fragments survive of this first novel, The Poor Man and theLady, but he continued to write and in 1871 Desperate Remedies was published,followed by Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) and A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873). In1874 Hardy married his first wife, Emma Gifford, and in the same year Far fromthe Madding Crowd was published to considerable acclaim. Four years later hemoved back to London; The Return of the Native was published in the same yearand he became a prominent figure in literary circles. Returning again to Dorset in 1885, Hardy continued hisregular output: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), The Woodlanders (1887) and acollection of short stories, Wessex Tales (1888). Tess of the d’Urbervilles waspublished in 1891 and his last novel, Jude the Obscure appeared in 1895.Towards the end of his life, Hardy turned to the writing of poetry. Emma diedin 1912 and in 1914 he married his secretary, Florence Dugdale, with whose helphe began his autobiography, The Early Life of Thomas Hardy. This was publishedposthumously, as he died on January 11, 1928. His ashes were laid in Poet’sCorner in Westminster Abbey and his heart was buried in the grave of his firstwife at Stinsford, next to the tomb of his parents. Thomas Hardy is admired not only for the power of hisstorytelling, but also for his evocation of the English landscape. He wrote inhis notebooks: “My art is to intensify the expression of things as is done byCrivelli, Bellini, etc., so that the heart and inner meaning is made visiblyvisible.” He was thus not just interested in the landscape as a mirror for themood or circumstances of the characters, but he wanted there to be noseparation between the two, and it is this unity that gives his novels theirparticular force and intensity: the tranquil Vale of Blackmoor is Tess’innocence; the Chase somehow colludes in her seduction; her affair with Angel,is also a love affair with the Vale of the Big Dairies; Flintcomb-Ash is anactive participant in Tess’ destitution; the altar-stone of Stonehenge offersitself for her ultimate sacrifice. If the individual were indivisible from thelandscape, it would seem that mechanization also has a part to play, and that partis invariably malevolent. We see Tess suffer on the threshing machine, and herlong, wet journey to the railway station marks the real beginning of herinevitable tragedy. In part she is that rural idyll which would soon beeclipsed, and finally swept away by the turning of the century. Notes by Heather Godwin Imogen Stubbs Imogen Stubbs has worked extensively on stage in the WestEnd and across the UK, with major roles in A Streetcar Named Desire oppositeJessica Lange, Uncle Vanya, Othello, Heartbreak House and the title role in St.Joan. Her major film credits include Viola in Twelfth Night, Sense andSensibility and Jack and Sarah. She has been seen on television in her own detective series Anna Lee, aswell as After the Dance, The Rainbow and The Browning Version.
