The Return of the Native.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
2020/1Βιβλιοθήκη /092Among Hardy’s major works, Under the Greenwood Tree is the most cheerful and idyllic.
Thomas Hardy
Son of mason, Thomas Hardy was born near Dorchester, the area that later bacame the famous “Wessex” in many of his novels. At 16, he was apprenticed to a local architect. Six year later he went to London to work for a famous architect. But soon he was writing poetry; when that failed, he began to write novels. In his later years, he returned to write poetry.
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His chief works: Desperate Remedies (1871 计出无奈) Under the Greenwood Tree (1872格林伍德的绿树荫
下) Far from the Madding Crowd (1874,远离尘嚣) Tess of the D’ Urbervilles (1891, 德伯家的苔丝) Jude the Obscure (1896, 无名的裘德)
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