'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but...(展开全部)

Thomas Hardy’s almost supernatural insight into the course of wayward lives, his instinctive feeling for the beauty of the rural landscape, and his power to invest that landscape with moral significance all came together in an utterly fluent way in The Mayor of Casterbridge. A classically shaped story about the rise and fall of the brooding and sometimes brutal Michael Henchard...(展开全部)

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride a...(展开全部)

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride a...(展开全部)

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go.

亚历山德罗·巴里科（Alessandro Baricco），意大利作家。1958年生于都灵。曾获意大利坎皮耶罗奖、法国美第奇外国作品奖、维亚雷焦文学奖和博斯克城堡文学奖。巴里科的作品有着浓烈的艺术与童话气质，富有实验性与音乐感，浓缩了人类美好而温暖的情感，既古老又新鲜，既传统又现代。 译者： 陈英，意大利马切拉塔大学语言学博士，现为四川外国语大学教授。译有马格里斯《微型世界》、费兰特“那不勒斯四部曲”、斯塔尔诺内《鞋带》、巴里科《一个人消失在世上》《海上钢琴师》、格罗西《拳头》等。2020年获评“单向街年度译者”，2021 年获意大利共和国总统颁布的“意大利之星”骑士勋章、意大利外交与国际合作翻译奖。

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go.

亚历山德罗·巴里科（Alessandro Baricco），意大利作家。1958年生于都灵。曾获意大利坎皮耶罗奖、法国美第奇外国作品奖、维亚雷焦文学奖和博斯克城堡文学奖。巴里科的作品有着浓烈的艺术与童话气质，富有实验性与音乐感，浓缩了人类美好而温暖的情感，既古老又新鲜，既传统又现代。 译者： 陈英，意大利马切拉塔大学语言学博士，现为四川外国语大学教授。译有马格里斯《微型世界》、费兰特“那不勒斯四部曲”、斯塔尔诺内《鞋带》、巴里科《一个人消失在世上》《海上钢琴师》、格罗西《拳头》等。2020年获评“单向街年度译者”，2021 年获意大利共和国总统颁布的“意大利之星”骑士勋章、意大利外交与国际合作翻译奖。

Book and CD One day Mr Gumpy decides to take a trip along the river in his boat — the only thing is that everyone else wants to come too! Soon the boat is full of children, animals and of course Mr Gumpy too. Everyone’s having a lovely time. But then the boat begins to rock. What do you think is about to happen?