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Chi cerca i libri di Thomas Hardy esplora i capolavori del realismo vittoriano, caratterizzati da una profonda analisi del conflitto tra individuo e convenzioni sociali. Seguire i libri in ordine cronologico di Thomas Hardy permette al lettore di comprendere l'evoluzione della sua critica verso la rigida morale dell'epoca e il suo progressivo pessimismo filosofico, offrendo una visione lucida e appassionata delle dinamiche rurali del Wessex.
Biografia dell'autore
Thomas Hardy nasce a Higher Bockhampton nel 1840. Formatosi come architetto, questa professione ha profondamente influenzato la precisione descrittiva dei suoi paesaggi e l'attenzione per le strutture sociali che definiscono la vita dei suoi protagonisti. Celebre sia come romanziere che come poeta, Hardy ha saputo ritrarre con empatia le sofferenze della classe rurale inglese. Pur essendo stato al centro di accese polemiche per i temi trattati nelle sue ultime opere, è oggi considerato una figura chiave della letteratura inglese. Thomas Hardy muore nel 1928, lasciando un'eredità letteraria che continua a influenzare il romanzo moderno.
Stile di scrittura
I libri di Thomas Hardy si distinguono per un tono tragico e fatalista, in cui la natura agisce come una forza potente e spesso indifferente alle vicende umane. Il lettore è trasportato nel Wessex attraverso figure memorabili come Tess d'Urberville, la cui lotta contro il destino ha segnato generazioni di lettori, o il tormentato Jude l'Oscuro, simbolo di aspirazioni infrante dalla società. La capacità di Hardy di intrecciare il dramma psicologico con una critica sociale serrata rende le sue opere, in particolare le saghe ambientate nelle campagne inglesi, testi intramontabili sulla fragilità umana e il peso delle convenzioni.
Jude the obscure. E-book. Formato EPUB Thomas Hardy - Lvl Editions, 2016 -
The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex), who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford. As a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great-aunt's bakery, with the hope of entering university. But before he can try to do this the naïve Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, a rather coarse and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant. The marriage is a failure, and they separate by mutual agreement, and Arabella later emigrates to Australia, where she enters into a bigamous marriage. By this time, Jude has abandoned his classical studies.After Arabella leaves him, Jude moves to Christminster and supports himself as a mason while studying alone, hoping to be able to enter the university later. There, he meets and falls in love with his free-spirited cousin, Sue Bridehead. But, shortly after this, Jude introduces Sue to his former schoolteacher, Mr. Phillotson, whom she eventually marries. However, she soon regrets this, because in addition to being in love with Jude, she is physically disgusted by her husband, and, apparently, by sex in general. Sue soon leaves Phillotson for Jude. Because of the scandal Phillotson has to give up his career as a schoolmaster.Sue and Jude spend some time living together without any sexual relationship, because of Sue's dislike both of sex and the institution of marriage. Soon after, Arabella reappears and this complicates matters. But Arabella and Jude divorce and she legally marries her bigamous husband, and Sue also is divorced. However, following this, Arabella reveals that she had a child of Jude's, eight months after they separated, and subsequently sends this child to his father. He is named Jude and nicknamed "Little Father Time" because of his intense seriousness and moroseness...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles. E-book. Formato EPUB Thomas Hardy - Lvl Editions, 2016 -
The novel is set in impoverished rural England, Thomas Hardy's fictional Wessex, during the Long Depression of the 1870s. Tess is the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield, uneducated peasants; however, John is given the impression by Parson Tringham that he may have noble blood, since "Durbeyfield" is a corruption of "D'Urberville", the surname of a noble Norman family, then extinct. The news immediately goes to John's head.That same day, Tess participates in the village May Dance, where she meets Angel Clare, youngest son of Reverend James Clare, who is on a walking tour with his two brothers. He stops to join the dance and partners several other girls. Angel notices Tess too late to dance with her, as he is already late for a promised meeting with his brothers. Tess feels slighted.Tess' father gets too drunk to drive to the market that night, so Tess undertakes the journey herself. However, she falls asleep at the reins, and the family's only horse encounters a speeding wagon and is fatally wounded. Tess feels so guilty over the horse's death that she agrees, against her better judgement, to visit Mrs d'Urberville, a rich widow who lives in the nearby town of Trantridge, and "claim kin". She is unaware that, in reality, Mrs d'Urberville's husband Simon Stoke adopted the surname even though he was unrelated to the real d'Urbervilles...