This slightly-built romance was the outcome of a wish to set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe, and to impart to readers the s

It was half-past four o'clock by the testimony of the land-surveyor, my authority for the particulars of this story, a gentleman with the faintest curve of humour on his lips; it was half-past four o

A Pair of Blue Eyes is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1873. The book describes the love triangle among a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. St

性格鲁莽倔强的亨查德年轻时曾经在酒后犯了大错，将妻女卖给了一个水手。若干年后他当了卡斯特桥市长，他的妻女突然出现，一家人团圆，此后他还找到了一个能干的苏格兰人做助手。然而他性格上的弱点再一次击垮了他。他一步步落魄，直至众叛亲离，凄凉死去。 作者借故事的各种阴差阳错和戏剧性冲突，抒发了“性格即命运”和“幸福不过是一段偶然的插曲&r

1913年10月，哈代的最后一部短篇小说集《浪子回头与其它故事》出版。

A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters

内容抒情，却充满讽刺意味，是关于爱情和欲望的迷人故事，哈代最不寻常的小说之一。